Category Archives: Google Software

It’s Official: Google Apps Suck, here’s Zdnet’s top 10 list Google should kill

Posted on August 5, 2010 by Martyn

Zdnet found 10 projects Google should kill after the demise of the Wave beta yesterday.

  1. Google Buzz. What was that anyway?
  2. Orkut.  I honestly never visited the site unless by mistake.
  3. Friend Connect.  Not sure I have heard of this either, what was it or will it be?
  4. Google Desktop.  I install and deinstall this regularly.  I love it, I hate it.  I sleep better without it.
  5. Google Base.  Isn’t that where all the chiefs meet?
  6. Google Checkout.  Ahh, now I know about this one, I developed an API for shopping cart software and their API really does suck.  As a consumer I refuse to use them.
  7. Google Toolbar.  I use it and like the way it allows me to click through keywords in searches, and I use the spelligna chhecker.
  8. Google Lattitude.  Don’t they mean attitude?
  9. Google Pack.  Huh?  What do they pack?
  10. Photo Screensaver.  Not another one, surely this is innovation at its thinnest?

toolbarssuck Its Official: Google Apps Suck, heres Zdnets top 10 list Google should kill

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Google no longer offers encrypted search?

Posted on July 28, 2010 by Martyn

Have I done something wrong? I tried in FF, IE and Chrome but this is what I get now when I try change to https:-

sgoog Google no longer offers encrypted search?

It flips right back ignoring my search preferences and even typing it manually makes no difference.

I was using it to debug a local proxy handling SSL requests and it took a while to realise why I could see nothing on 443.

I think I can live with out it but those folks performing searches they do not want their ISP or any of the node-holders in between to see might be upset at this silent change. While we freely give (and trust) Google with our search string the thought our ISP can store it and pass it on to third parties can be a disturbing.

If BT see a lot of people searching for a new broadband provider in a particular area that information could be used to decide on the viability of investing in better equipment. Is that fair?

I don’t know what fair use is but they could use the data in other ways. What if they detect people are not happy with a local supplier, your ISP could use that to bring in a new supplier. The locals then get more options, so that has to be good right?

Sometimes it’s good to stop and think about things we take for granted.

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