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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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Post by Of_Prometheus »

ChuckMcM wrote: post #63

Given that I haven't been pummelled with email about how Blogger is going to become "Google + compliant" I'm guessing that the answer is "No, they won't kill your blog." And they won't charge your credit card. And next spring they will announce that Blogger is being shut down and you can move your Blog over to your own Google+ page! And then you will get to decide what you want to do next. But that is just a theory,…

I'd love to know just how much of a possibility there is of this happening. I've spent a lot of time customising and tine-tuning my own blog, so I've no interest in seeing it turn into one of millions of generic Google+ "blogs".

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

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Post by chris_mahan »

patio11 wrote: post #86
chris_mahan wrote: post #15

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Google _does_ do customer support. You are not their customers. Advertisers are.

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…

see my other reply on this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6837320

I'm not talking about less than $1 million a year account.

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

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Post by chiph »

Simucal wrote: post #88
degenerate wrote: post #79

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The MailPile page ( https://www.mailpile.is/ ) mentions GMVault ( http://gmvault.org/ ) as their method for backing up Gmail. I haven't heard of GMVault (or MailPile) until just now. Both look promising. I'm glad there is a push in this direction.

I've been using GMVault for the past month and I have really enjoyed it. I wrote a cron job to periodically pull down my latest emails and back them up (encrypted).

Does GMVault store your mail on your machine in a text-readable (I include XML in this) format? Because if it's a binary blob, it's not as useful as it could be.

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

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Post by dredmorbius »

alandarev wrote: post #97
dredmorbius wrote: post #44

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I am ... less than pleased with Google as a company and its policies of late (I came home a couple of weekends back to find the top 3 HN slots addressing issues with Google and the YT/Google+ integration, two of which were either links to or based on my posts there). That said: I've found Google personnel highly responsive (though not always immediately so) to issues I've raised. Most recently with the Data Liberatio…

Their response is directly proportional to the customer's Klout score.

I suspect in my case (I don't do FB or Twitter, both of which Klout depends on heavily) it had more to do with my being persistent in calling out issues, and working constructively to address them. Took a while to pound that message through but it eventually happened.

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

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Post by Simucal »

chiph wrote: post #113
Simucal wrote: post #88

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I've been using GMVault for the past month and I have really enjoyed it. I wrote a cron job to periodically pull down my latest emails and back them up (encrypted).

Does GMVault store your mail on your machine in a text-readable (I include XML in this) format? Because if it's a binary blob, it's not as useful as it could be.

All emails are stored individually as EML files which is just text. It can also export all your emails into the standard maildir or mbox format so you can easily import them elsewhere.

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

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Post by prawn »

andrewfong wrote: post #70
prawn wrote: post #41

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Picasa is now overrun with Chinese spammers using the "send to a friend"-type feature. I mark every incoming Picasa share message as spam and Gmail still lets them all through...

Create a filter to send Picasa mail to a folder you then proceed to ignore.

Which then trashes Picasa shares from any friends who may be or might in the future share photos.

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

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Post by rhizome »

boomzilla wrote: post #89
rhizome wrote: post #67

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they're trying to address the needs of hundreds of millions (or more) users with a pretty finite staff. A problem of their own devising. I don't have any sympathy for them, they've intentionally built up their image of a company of geniuses who hire the best of the best, and they have made it a primary corporate goal to acquire those hundreds of millions of users. I speculate that the reason they have effectively zer…

Customer service is definitely non trivial, and it's actually something that needs to be part of company's culture and be driven from top management. I heard that at Amazon, Jeff Bezos asked all managers from from director level's up to do customer support one day a year in a call center (including Jeff himself). I can't imagine Larry or Sergei would pay any attention to that kind of things, and just ask why can't we…

Craig Newmark they ain't.

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

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Post by TrevorJ »

babuskov wrote: post #54
TrevorJ wrote: post #26

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This is the right answer. I managed an Adwords campaign that had a spend in the mid to high six figures a year, and we had standing meetings with support every week. I don't like the fact this this is how it works, but I understand the reality.

What do you mean by "standing meetings"?

Scheduled meetings, held on a regular basis.

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

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Post by ommunist »

JoeCortopassi wrote: post #11

Heavily relying on Google product? ✓ Hitting a dead-end with Google's customer service? ✓ Have an existing audience you can leverage to get some random Google employee's attention? ✓ Reach front page of Hacker News? ✓ Good news! You should have your problem fixed in 2-5 business days. The rest of us suckers relying on google services get to stare at our inboxes helplessly, waiting for a response to our support ticket…

You probably meant "being left out of the cloud" in your last sentence.
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