Google Services: Gmail, YouTube and Google Search

[Sushubh]

yeap. it is pretty awesome. you get to see various social connections of the person who has sent you a mail.

 

[moindear]

Most of my friends are not there in any social network. So nothing to annoy me

 

[Sushubh]

actually it is not annoying at all. i find it rather useful.

 

[amish]

i know it's a bad habit because a lot of folks do not like clicking on short links. i bet we have some folks here who hate my short link linking habit!

yup

 

[Sushubh]

heh. i knew you are part of that group.

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embedly is however forcing me to use native links for popular services.

 

[zeo]

+1 amish

 

[Sushubh]

Google starts rolling out their new top navigation bar

 

[amish]

Anyone facing problem with Google and its services?

Google search, Gmail, Picasa etc.. are so slow.. all other websites like Yahoo, MSN, this forum are opening fine.

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Sometimes google related pages give timeout .. need to refresh it 2-3 times.

 

[AgentX]

@amish,

Everything seems to be working normally to me. Try using their public DNS (8.8.8.8/8.8.4.4) - It reduced my ping times to Google from 300 to 60 and it considerably fastens my browsing experience on all Google services. (except Youtube and the others)

 

[fuzzy_child]

When trying to login to my Gmail account today morning, was greeted with the below message
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Google Accounts: I'm getting a message that says 'Sorry, your account has been disabled.'


In most cases, accounts are disabled because of a perceived violation of either the Google Terms of Service or product-specific Terms of Service.
Google reserves the right to:


[*]Suspend a Google Account from using a particular product or the entire Google Accounts system if the Terms of Service or product-specific policies are violated.
[*]Terminate your account at any time, for any reason, with or without notice.
[/list]If your Google Account has been disabled, please review the relevant Terms of Service before attempting to create another account. For guidelines on a specific Google product, please visit the product homepage for a link to its Terms of Service.
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http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fasterforward/2011/02/gmail_accounts_vanish.html

Update from Google
Apps Status Dashboard

This issue affects less than 0.08% of the Google Mail user base. This is a revised estimate. Google engineers are working to restore full access. Affected users may be temporarily unable to sign in while we repair their accounts.
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Looks like around 150000 fortunate gmail users had the same privilege, I though google apps to be the most reliable one available, but now they seem to be the least reliable with recent bugs.