Following up on my post at http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2004_09_20_index.html#109560746136140517 I would like to know: what (if anything) do you dislike about Google?

I want to emphasize 10. Google Germany is FULL of Spam, everything related to school, travel, shopping, etc. is polluted.

Anonymous, do you have some examples for us of reasonable searches with spammy results?

http://www.google.com/search?q=interpretation+goethe
http://www.google.com/search?q=interpretation+faust

And so on. There must be some company that bought hundreds of domains (reli-referate.de, inhaltsangabe-neu.de, referate-hier.de, etc) and filled them with keyword lists. Don't why this works.

I agree with only a few points...
1 The Google cookie overwrites different accounts (e.g. I can't switch between Gmail and Google Answers)
I had registered with Google Answers using my yahoo email address. Now google seems to be looking for my Gmail address whenever I access Google Answers. Worst of all now even Google Answers needs IE 5.5 or above!

5 Google doesn't "get" RSS (e.g., no support in Google News and other services)
I even sent an email to google support requesting for RSS. But I think the new alert system is superior than RSS.

7 Google Groups Beta is very buggy (at least, many errors have still not been fixed – I think this one was released way to early)
I can't believe what a mess it is. I read and tested the "Starring" system in Groups. I liked it and thought it will be integrated with overall google experience. But I don't find it anywhere anymore!

I will like to add one more nuisance to the list, “Directory”. I used to click on the Directory button on google toolbar to find similar sites. It seems to be broken.

Another dislike: the 10 keyword limit

Google fails to provide any kind of roadmap for service offerings. When are GMail, Google WebService, Froogle getting out of beta?

-Rajiv
rajspace.blog-city.com

I dislike PageRank®.

Yannick Mückenhirn ® http://noticiasinteresantes.blogspot.com