Google: Yet Another Google Glitch
February 24, 2009
YAGG (a new acronym pronounced like “gag” as in choke) has been coined by the goslings in the mine drainage pond. The addled goose has little to add to the Washington Post’s headline “Trouble in the Clouds: Gmail Turns into Gfail” here. Xooglers are sending nasty grams to other Googlers, when Gmail and MOMA work obviously. Glitches are becoming very Vista like in the opinion of the addled goose. The reasons offered by main stream dead tree publications omit such interesting causes as:
- Googlers are smart, but the size of the company has made the culture susceptible to the Microsoft product management disease
- Dependencies within the system are usually trapped by Google’s compile time checks and the peer quality assurance project, but as more Googlers become too busy, little errors can grow up to be big mistakes. Google has not created an Orkut class issue, but the Gmail issue is more immediate
- Problems are evident in such unrelated areas as ad metrics, malware flagging, and today mail.
Too bad there is no competitor in a position to challenge the GOOG. A decade of indifference has created a culture of failure among Google’s direct competitors and now a soupçon is evident to the addled goose in some Google functions. Just my honking opinion. I don’t have a fix. The future is evident to me for some Google services. I can see that vista before me. Can you? More pointedly, can you see your Gmail?
Stephen Arnold, February 24, 2009
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