I don’t usually have much bad things to say about Google, aside from the fact that they make their tools almost completely opaque, but lately I’ve run into a bit of an annoyance with GMail. First occurrence was during a Jot meltdown. I love jot because even though it doesn’t always work, in its pre-Google stage I’ve been very happy working to the support there to get a quick solution! *heart* ! postGoogle, I email jotsupport@google.com or something like that and the email bounced! I remember sending multiples of copied and forwarded mails, checking if my outgoing account is working, one of which is also gmail, and then checking if the inbound is working. No dice. About half day later, it’s good to go. It’s not jot’s fault. really. It’s gmail!
Flip to the present time, I have downloaded the Google Toolbar because of pagerank, and clicked on the mail icon there, sign in, and I get this lovely picture of the ‘GMail is down’ page; I’m sure you’ve seen it.
Maybe all the # of users? Nah G is pretty equipped. Some one forgot to document changes? Nah, G’s not a “startup” anymore. Loading new spy software behind the scenes? Maybe. I may not know much, but I know that there are backup servers and it is odd to have some entity as powerful and resourceful as Google (a composite of the smartest ppl in the world) have a service like GMail down.
ifindkarma said
Gmail: “I ate ur email. It was delishus.“