"shows how far the search company has"

I could have sworn that they were an advertising company, with a sideline of search engine.

As China has now blocked Blogspot, it's become apparent that about half the blogging world use this service.

I noticed that the embedded Google Maps in the sites I run were also crapped out last night at about 2145.

Seems whatever they're breaking is pretty fundamental to Google's systems.

Surely MS-office 2010 will have a google back-up reader built in, to give it a unique selling point?

Otherwise, some open-source do-gooder will develop a utility to copy everything you change in a googleapp onto your local drive as a back-up.

If anyone here has read the gmail/google "help" (loose-term alert) pages/forum, they would know there are frequent outages and bugs.. even my trash folder thats supposed to be emptied every xx days had items over a year old in there - when I posted about it, got dismissed, then proved it, it was suddenly fixed!

Point is Ive read and experienced many google app failures and they just dont seem to have a good resilience and continuity in-place...

Google are great app builders, but only ok infrastructure designers = don't depend on them (I have my personal mail split between 2 yahoo and 1 gmail accounts)

Paris - 'cos she knows how to keep going when the going gets tough