Is Google Slipping?
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For many years now I have been very impressed with Google and everything that they do. They always seem to be developing and always seem to get it right. I look at the way Microsoft and a lot of other companies do things and thought if they only followed Google’s path they would be in a much better place. Take Yahoo’s sponsored search and compare it to Google’s AdWords – its a joke how far ahead Google are.
Now just as I finish praising Google I am going to take a little stab at them. As mentioned I never ever found a fault with their services and everything was always perfect, however in the past couple of weeks some things have been brought to my attention that Google may be looking to far ahead and not giving their current projects enough attention.
One example is my Google Calendar – I use it all the time and rely on it to organise my life (and business) however two days ago I noticed that the email reminders I set for my events just stopped sending. Luckily I remembered these events on my own so it was not too much of an issue, but how can it just stop all of a sudden? This is such a critical feature to go wrong if they expect their calendar to be successful. I later did a few searches on the internet and I found other people with similar issues, but as yet no fix.
There were a bunch of other similar things that happened causing me to right this post that I wont get into, however the point I am making is that I had such high respect for anything Google did, if they brought out a new feature I would use it instantly because if it was Google it had to be good.
I guess though after all Google are human and humans do make mistakes, it’s only because of their success and such high quality services provided in the past that they get criticised when small things go wrong.
