Two Google Flops in a Row?
May 21st, 2005The Google Web Accelerator caused incredibly un-web problems with web apps.
So, okay, Google finally screws something up.
But twice in a row?
This Google portal doohickey is utterly underwhelming, verging on utter lameness. The reason Google’s minimalist web design works is that their products have astonishing utility, almost without fail: search, maps, email, sets, etc., etc. But sticking a big My-Yahoo-circa-1999 box under the search field hardly qualifies as astonishingly useful.
It just strikes me as lame. Presumably they have more plans for it. (A feed reader that actually works, maybe?)
But whatever, Google is still going to eat the universe.
Maybe they just wanted an excuse to show off that oh-so-rad drag-and-drop-in-a-webpage feature.
- Vivling @ 24 May 2005Oh, weird. I didn’t even notice that.
But that technique isn’t totally new:
http://tool-man.org/examples/dragging.html
http://brothercake.com/site/resources/scripts/dbx/
http://www.walterzorn.com/dragdrop/dragdrop_e.htm
It is pretty neat though.
- pat @ 24 May 2005ok so im drunk and stumbled across this site and will never see it again….. isnt a google flop where you type in something to search and can only get one website…………………. whatever i actually read the shit above and it has nothi9ng on goole flops
- billy joe @ 15 January 2007