don't use Google tomorrow

Some people are asking not to use Google tomorrow.

Google does badly on privacy

All the world now is talking Google is the worst on privacy in the top internet traffic sites.

Google does badly on privacy but it doesn't do well even for its own interest!

Scobleizer complains about Google sucks for travelers. Google puts a little cookie on your computer to track which country your computer is connected, then it will show you the site in the language majority people speak in that country.

If you really pay attention to this statement, there are many places that could break user experience.
Except traveler like Scobleizer, there are many Mexican living in the United States for many years. They don't speak well English. I wonder how they use Google. :)
Google only cares about your computer location, not cares about what language you speak;

If you have been searching porno sites for a night. Second day, you come to office, when you Google something, Google always rank porno sites first since it figures out that might be your best preference.

To be fair, on the first page of Google, there is a link, "preference", which you can use it to change language setting.

Google Reader borken today

Well, not really for me, but for Techcrunch guys.
Google Reader still works for me although it doesn't work on Safari V3 onWindows at all. See my earlier post.
Google Reader, Gmail, Google Document, and others have been up and down for me for a long time. All of my friends joked on me that Google blocks me because I'm writing this blog.

Google Reader doesn't work in Safari 3.0 for Windows

Considering how closely Apple and Google have been working together on Google Map for IPhone and other initiatives according to recent news, either talked by Steve Jobs or from the news. It's surprised to find that Safari V3 on Windows announced today doesn't work for Google Reader at all.

Check out the page on the left. I'm really jealous of Googlers not bothered by the QAs like our QA, who filed bugs even for icons don't align well in Safari.

Google becomes Googler, Googlest

As Google becomes bigger, the cooperation among teams become increasingly difficult. As my experience on enterprise software development, the integration among software is extremely difficult. That's why I see more and more Goobugs among the links between Google software products.
Today I was trying to install Google Notebooks. Simple enough?
As usual, google Google Notebook first, find the link, click the "get the extension" link on the left menu, Google is smart enough figuring out I am running Firefox and prompts me to install the extension.
I click install, Firefox asks me to close all the opened tabs. I closed it.
Then install, Firefox restart automatically;
Then Google Browser Sync asked me if I want to restore previous closed sessions;
Of course;
Then Google Notebook asks me to download again and reinstall again, again, again...
because Google Notebook page is re-opened by Google Browser Sync and it will "smartly" automatically install the Google Notebook again.

google has another domain?

It is http://gmodules.com/

GMap doesn't talk to Search

When you select Google cache from Google search results, if that page has a mashup with GMap, it will warn you that the mashup won't work because that mashup authentication key, issued by GMap to the site, work only under that domain. Since Google cache is under Google domain, this won't work.

Google is testing a new Ad system?

Today I am checking out my Gmail. Suddenly I got a feeling why today's gmail is so clean. I did a good look and found out on the right side, there is no Google Ads. But then I scrolled down for a long way, I found Google Ads is hidding at the bottom left of the page. It is just all the spam sites. Is Google Ad trying to learn some practice from spam sites?

Google Double Branding

It seems Google is pushing hard to have a double branding on the FireFox platform.

Blame Google Account

This story tells how a developer spent some time figuring out how to sign up code.google.com, being lost between "Google Account" and "Gmail Account". Below is a Goolge produce laundry list and its authentication method.

Google Checkout: Google Account
Google Code: GMail => Google Account(it asks for Google Account but acctually only GMail works)
Google co-op: Google Account
Google Blogger: blogger account
Google Calendar: Google Account
Google Doc and Spreadsheet: Google Account
Gmail: Google Account (it says "Sign in GMail with Google Account" but acctually if you use Google Account to login, it tells your Google Account can't be used in GMail. )
Google Groups: Google Account

I guess Google is in the process of moving all login to Google Account, but still wants preventing GMail spam.

I don't have tags for my blog

Blogger doesn't have tagging features. After it is bought by Google, maybe it is too slow to respond to the market.