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  • ad0gg
    FFR Player
    • Dec 2003
    • 989

    #1

    Google

    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
    FFR Player
    • Nov 2003
    • 2293

    #2
    RE: Google

    What were your gmail problems?



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    • 180digi
      FFR Player
      • May 2004
      • 969

      #3
      RE: Google

      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?
      You'll never walk alone.

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      • ad0gg
        FFR Player
        • Dec 2003
        • 989

        #4
        Re: RE: Google

        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.

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        • Varia
          FFR Player
          • Jul 2003
          • 1713

          #5
          RE: Re: RE: Google

          Same thing happened to me on AOL a really long time ago.
          GB CHALLENGE IS HOMOSEXUAL

          ARE YOU HOMOSEXUAL?


          I THINK SO

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          • lightdarkness
            Summer!!
            • Jul 2003
            • 11308

            #6
            RE: Re: RE: Google

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

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            • talisman
              Resident Penguin
              FFR Simfile Author
              • May 2003
              • 4598

              #7
              RE: Re: RE: Google

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

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              • Yanah_God
                Banned
                • Oct 2003
                • 1330

                #8
                RE: Re: RE: Google

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

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                • ad0gg
                  FFR Player
                  • Dec 2003
                  • 989

                  #9
                  Re: RE: Re: RE: Google

                  Originally posted by lightdarkness
                  Clear your cookies. An old one might be conflicting or something completely random like that.
                  Tried it.

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                  • QreepyBORIS
                    FFR Player
                    • Feb 2003
                    • 7454

                    #10
                    RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: Google

                    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.

                    Signature subject to change.

                    THE ZERRRRRG.

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                    • Tasuke
                      FFR Player
                      • Oct 2003
                      • 1671

                      #11
                      RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: Google

                      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.

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                      • Spazzbite
                        FFR Simfile Author
                        FFR Simfile Author
                        • Jan 2003
                        • 2181

                        #12
                        RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: Google

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

                        Originally posted by Quicker
                        shades don't break unless you break them.

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                        • Sol_Solis
                          FFR Player
                          • Aug 2005
                          • 661

                          #13
                          RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: Google

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                          • ad0gg
                            FFR Player
                            • Dec 2003
                            • 989

                            #14
                            Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: Google

                            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?

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                            • Afrobean
                              Admiral in the Red Army
                              • Dec 2003
                              • 13262

                              #15
                              Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: Google

                              Originally posted by 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?
                              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.

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