Is google broken for anyone else? The left panel menu they stole from bing isn't working. "web" and "images" links are broken and hidden by the google logo in all my browsers. I swear they seem to be hiring dumber people every day. And what the hell was up with those fucking wallpaper images and white text that you couldn't turn off? Google is dangerously close to being removed as my homepage for the first time in 10 years.

Edit, it's back working again now. I tried the same query in 4 different browsers and got the same error. Evidently one of their script kiddies screwed up. You'd think they'd test that shit before it goes live. It was practically unusable.

[Edited on June 13, 2010 at 4:33 PM. Reason : .]

6/13/2010 4:29:59 PM

user error

6/13/2010 4:47:03 PM

You shut your whore mouth.

6/13/2010 4:47:58 PM

sounds like an ID-10-T error

[Edited on June 13, 2010 at 6:54 PM. Reason : *]

6/13/2010 6:54:36 PM

this is a pretty angry thread considering how easy it is to switch to another search engine, even if it's just for a single search

6/13/2010 11:07:23 PM

So, is there anything that you don't hate? So much negativity in such a puny thread.

6/13/2010 11:08:55 PM

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"sounds like an ID-10-T error"

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" Google is dangerously close to being removed as my homepage for the first time in 10 years."

all talk and no action. typical.

6/13/2010 11:11:55 PM

I have very little doubt that every single person that works for Google is considerably more intelligent than smc.

6/13/2010 11:43:57 PM

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"Google is dangerously close to being removed as my homepage for the first time in 10 years."

OH NOES! Google stock would plummet!!!

6/13/2010 11:46:53 PM

Mark my words, if they screw up the search engine, everything else will crumble.

6/13/2010 11:55:00 PM

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"I have very little doubt that every single person that works for Google is considerably more intelligent than smc."

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6/14/2010 12:22:30 AM

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"And yes, I won't be leaving a tip, 'cause I could... I could shut this whole resort down. Sir? I'll take my traveler's checks to a competing resort. I could write a letter to your board of tourism and I could have this place condemned. I could put... I could put... strychnine in the guacamole. There was salt on the glass, BIG grains of salt. "

DO IT, Milton!

6/14/2010 12:44:59 AM

Slowly going the way of pets.com

6/14/2010 1:09:18 AM

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"Evidently one of their script kiddies screwed up. You'd think they'd test that shit before it goes live. It was practically unusable."

i'm pretty sure (read: almost certain) your assumptions are wrong and this was caused by something on your end.

of course, technically speaking, you are beta testing for google basically every time you do a search... but that's for modifications to search algorithms.

6/14/2010 2:39:08 AM

MARK HIS WORDS!

6/14/2010 8:51:33 AM

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"Google is dangerously close to being removed as my homepage for the first time in 10 years."

do people still use a single 'home page' anymore?

I have a series of tabs that open all of the web based tools I use daily whenever I open firefox... I figured most people do something similar these days.

Hell, I never use google through it's main page anymore, when I want to search for something, I use the google search bar built into firefox, safari, etc. It's kind of pointless to navigate to google, and then search, when it can be done in one step, although I still see people doing this all the time, even though it's a less efficient workflow.

6/14/2010 9:48:21 AM

^one time long ago the upper-right search box didn't show me related searches to what i was typing, like the google homepage does

it took me years to trust it again

6/14/2010 9:53:23 AM

haha, yeah but it's been doing that for years now, too

6/14/2010 9:56:08 AM

i use google as my homepage. 85% of the time i open the internets it's to look something up. all i have all their extra shit they've changed lately disabled. i use it b/c it loads fast and there's not a bunch of clutter. it won't load fast if i'm opening lots of sites.

i really just don't need 5-10 different website every time i open a web browser. to each is own, though i just don't see it.

6/14/2010 9:56:58 AM

Okay then. What could cause the same error in IE, Firefox, Chrome and Safari?

Again, the Google logo was in the wrong place on the left sidebar, blocking all the search engine choices. I even cleared all the respective caches and the problem remained. I tried again in 5 minutes and all was well again. Seems to me that they screwed up.

6/14/2010 11:57:34 AM

You probably caught some sort of brief maintenance period and you got gibberish back. The companies assume that the short downtime will confuse a few users, but then be functioning a few minutes later. Intelligent users will just try again in short order. No system is flawless. (Of couse, this is all speculation).

[Edited on June 14, 2010 at 12:31 PM. Reason : ]

6/14/2010 12:30:11 PM

still waiting on smc to switch his homepage to bing

6/14/2010 7:44:17 PM