I used to love Google - I used pretty much every service they had to offer. But in the last few years I've found myself distancing from them - I've replaced all but a small few (Reader, Email and Docs) of their services and I intend to get the last few over with. Why? I'm not sure. I guess Google, to me, used to be about pushing what's possible. With each service, Google created something that surprised and impressed…
> Lately, everything they do seems to be rooted in aggressive data mining and advertising. Yes. My personal pet peeve is when Google breaks search results links for the sake of data mining. Search results links often now no longer give the destination site, but some awful URL like: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&#... This neither improves the web nor helps me organize information. Of course the SER of…
I wish Google would use the ping attribute on but that's too easy to disable.