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Will Google Kill my Blog on December 6th?

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Re: Will Google Kill my Blog on December 6th?

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I had the same problem with Google Cloud account (for API and App engine). The problem is that changing CC number by following link in the email will not update your CC. You need to go to https://wallet.google.com and update your CC.

The big brains at Google can't design a workflow to allow you to continue paying them? Was it even tested??

Words fail me.

Re: Will Google Kill my Blog on December 6th?

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Feel free to ask an AdWords advertiser about their experiences before parroting this bit about Internet wisdom. I'm told by contacts inside the Borg that things have gotten better in the last few years -- for example, now you can find a phone number to reach a call center that will /dev/null your ticket for you rather than having to /dev/null it yourself -- but the last few times I needed it having a $X0,000 a year a…

As a small aside, I think this is the first time I have seen Google referred to as the Borg. That was always Microsoft's title in the slashdot days. Times have changed.

After having been in this industry for a bit more than 15 years, and having read a lot of history, I'm beginning to suspect that due to the economics of it, there is always going to be a Borg. IBM, Microsoft, Google, and so on.

Re: Will Google Kill my Blog on December 6th?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Feel free to ask an AdWords advertiser about their experiences before parroting this bit about Internet wisdom. I'm told by contacts inside the Borg that things have gotten better in the last few years -- for example, now you can find a phone number to reach a call center that will /dev/null your ticket for you rather than having to /dev/null it yourself -- but the last few times I needed it having a $X0,000 a year a…

Anecdotal, but I've had great experience with Google Apps paid support as well as support for our Adwords campaigns (we spend about $40k a year with them on Adwords).

Can you elaborate? What kind of issues you had with GApps and Adwords and what kind of support you got from them?

Re: Will Google Kill my Blog on December 6th?

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Well, the advertisers I know have their share of Google complaints as well relating to customer service.

I'm sure if an advertiser spends $10M a month on Google ads, they have someone's cell phone they can call anytime if there are any issue, and that person will "fix" whatever the problem is. These are the Google customers, not the guy who spends $50 a month advertising his self-published book.

I'm not talking about $50 a month (and that won't get you very far)

I'm talking about $1k to $10k (in orders of magnitude) which, yes, it's not top tier but it's not cheap as well

Re: Will Google Kill my Blog on December 6th?

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As a long time Gmail user heavily invested in it (with over 60GB of email), I'm waiting patiently for mailpile.is to get rolled out.

Take my advice - throw away every email older than 2 years. Not only will you never need them, but they're what the black hats will hang you by should they get the urge. You will feel a huge sense of relief - a weight lifted from your soul as you relinquish the crushing burden of carting about all those dead emails. (Unless, of course, you work in an industry where longer retention times are mandated.)

In the UK, business documents must be retained for six years.

Re: Will Google Kill my Blog on December 6th?

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As a long time Gmail user heavily invested in it (with over 60GB of email), I'm waiting patiently for mailpile.is to get rolled out.

Take my advice - throw away every email older than 2 years. Not only will you never need them, but they're what the black hats will hang you by should they get the urge. You will feel a huge sense of relief - a weight lifted from your soul as you relinquish the crushing burden of carting about all those dead emails. (Unless, of course, you work in an industry where longer retention times are mandated.)

Im not a lawyer so there may be subtle details I don't understand, but broadly in England and Wales, you can be sued within either 6 years or 12 years from the date of a breach of contract depending on type of contract, in Scotland 15 years. I don't know about the US or rest of EU, but think carefully about deleting all your old emails. You might have something in there which would be very useful to defend yourself if this ever happened. You would regret this if you had built the next Facebook and some old acquaintance decided to stake a claim based on some gmail conversation from 10 years ago. Better to archive to a redundant backup system I would say.

Re: Will Google Kill my Blog on December 6th?

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First: Try repeating everything with a different browser. I couldn't update my adwords payment information recently in Safari, but I had no trouble doing it with Firefox. It sounds like you have a different issue, but that could do it. Google sites are all a little funny with anything other than Chrome.

Re: Will Google Kill my Blog on December 6th?

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Just curious, how is Microsoft's support in this department? Has anyone dealt with customer support for hotmail/outlook, skydrive, etc ?

Some years back I determined that Microsoft had a massive problem with spam transiting their network. I found a Sr. VP's name associated with the service, phoned the main switchboard, and asked for him. He picked up his phone on the first ring. I briefly described the issue (and how I'd determined it was a problem), he told me he'd have the appropriate manager get in touch with me later that day. I received that call…

I've emailed Scott Guthrie a couple of times with regard to a couple of ASP.NET issues I felt warranted his team's attention rather than use that "Connect" bug reporting crap. After three or four hours he forwarded my emails to "the right people" and cc'd me and I got to work with these folks resolving the issues at hand via email. Was a pretty good experience and Scott is a top bloke.

Re: Will Google Kill my Blog on December 6th?

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I thought google had support ... that's what the movie "The intership" lead me to believe.

I watched it with a group of friends. At the end, the only thing I could say about it was "Well, that part about Google having customer service was pretty good."

After watching the movie, I realized I wouldn't want to work there if the corporate culture was truly the way it is depicted in the movie.

Re: Will Google Kill my Blog on December 6th?

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I work at GoDaddy and recently our CEO read an email from a customer who had been encouraged by a son to use Google services for his small business, but when he couldn't figure out some issue with support ("they talked way over my head"), he called GoDaddy and found someone that worked to get his account setup. Google probably, appropriately, calculates the cost of providing good customer support to hundreds of milli…

You know you're support is awful when GoDaddy makes you look bad.

I've been using GoDaddy for twelve years, and have always had excellent results with their Tech. Support. They are knowledgeable and helpful. (Yes, their control panel feels like running through a gauntlet).
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