Google

[ad0gg]

Lately Google has been getting more and more proprietary and less and less personal. I started using Google about 5 years ago, and it was good search engine. It peaked about a year ago (in my opinion), but lately I've realized it sucks. I'm not getting the quality of results I was a year ago. I've been getting tons of garbage pages lately. Yes, Google has all these great features coming out, but it's all too much for me. I liked plain and simple Google. In the future, I see Google taking over as the "new" Microsoft.

On top of all that, I've been having some problems with my Gmail account lately. So, I email the Gmail Team, and about a week later, they send me a generic response. So I email them back, extensively describing my problem. Again, about 5 days later, I get another generic response, asking questions that I answered in my previous email. So by now I'm a little ticked off. I expected a personal response, maybe not giving me a solution to my problem, but at least assuring me that they would look into it. That's what I expected from a company like Google. So anyways, this emailing goes back and forth about 4 times, and I answer their generic questions. Finally, after I emailed them about a week and a half ago I get this response:

Originally Posted by Gmail Response

Hello,

Thank you for your reply.

We have investigated this issue, but because the results were
inconclusive, we're not able to provide further assistance.

Gmail takes the privacy and security of our users very seriously. For this
reason, we can't reveal any further information about this account.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused, and thank you for
your cooperation.

Sincerely,

The Gmail Team

That is the type of email I would expect from Microsoft, but not Google. So I'm tired of Google. It had its peak, and now it's falling.

...

With that out of the way, I'm looking for a brand new search engine. Not something gay like MSN, Yahoo, Altavista (but I do use it for music searches), Dogpile, etc. I want something brand new, like Google was when it first came out.

[hydrojakep]

What were your gmail problems?

[180digi]

Google has become tyrannical. The other search engines should band together to bring them down.

Isn't "google" officially a verb now meaning to search for things on google.com?

[ad0gg]

Originally Posted by hydrojakep

What were your gmail problems?

I haven't been able to log in for about a month now. So I tried all of my passwords. No luck. I tried the "Forgot my password" thing. It says my account doesn't exist. So I think to myself, "Ok, if it got deleted (which I have no idea how it would have), then I should be able to make another account with the same name, right?" WRONG. I tried to make a new account with the same name and it says the name was already taken. Now tell me that's not contradictory.

[Varia]

Same thing happened to me on AOL a really long time ago.

[lightdarkness]

Clear your cookies. An old one might be conflicting or something completely random like that.

[talisman]

google bashing isn't cool yet. Wait a few years.

[Yanah_God]

Google provides my porngraphy, that's all I need from it.

[ad0gg]

Originally Posted by lightdarkness

Clear your cookies. An old one might be conflicting or something completely random like that.

Tried it.

[QreepyBORIS]

Well, as of a few days ago, gmail continues to reject my connection. As in I cannot even go to their site. let alone log in. Disappointing.

Yeah, I've cleared cache, cookies, and everything else. REstarted computer, and I think I also restarted my internet connection.

Google itself works, though. Makes no sense.

[Tasuke]

I had my problems logging into my gmail too. So maybe they're just having a little generic trouble, lately. No need to start hating them.

[Spazzbite]

Ever thought that maybe someone got on your account and changed a bunch of configuration settings, including your password?

[Sol_Solis]

http://www.altavista.com/

[ad0gg]

Originally Posted by Spazzbite

Ever thought that maybe someone got on your account and changed a bunch of configuration settings, including your password?

Well then why would it say that my account does not exist?

[Afrobean]

Originally Posted by ad0gg

Well then why would it say that my account does not exist?

What probably happened is that your account expired. Gmail probably works off of something similar to AOL in that if an account expires, the name is saved in case that person wants to use it again. That would explain why there is no account, yet it says the name already is in use.

[Moogy]

Gmail is beta. You are all retarded.

[ad0gg]

Alright, I don't really hate Google. I've just been pissed off the last couple of days, and when I'm pissed off, I get a little (haha, more like extremely) irritant (sp?). So getting that email after a bad day just put me over the edge. I am still annoyed about my account, but I didn't mean to say things like Google is the new Microsoft, and they suck and stuff like that.

[ramonesfan]

>_> yahoo ftw

[zajac]

Just the other day I was at Ask Jeeves and I was laughing at the fact how that site uses Google Ads hahah... Yeah... At least I thought it was funny at the time... Sick irony...

[DUTCHN20]

i dont have gmail i did but i forgot my password