Google Bomb

[filkertom]

Okay, so did anybody else's Google home page default itself? Because I had some kinda important stuff on mine, and it went blooey, and I got cheesed and reconfigured it, and I tried to change a setting for one thing -- a dictionary gadget, just which dictionary would show up as default -- and the whole thing went blooey again. And the "help" system led me in two different circles. Not a good way to keep my trust, Google.

Update: It's back. I copied the info that I needed, and all is good. Oy.

Comments

[rsmit212.livejournal.com]

Mine's just fine. Are you set to delete cookies or something like that?

[armb.livejournal.com]

Lots of people, but I thought it was supposed to be fixed now.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/26/2030239
http://www.physorg.com/news96984506.html
http://www.computerworlduk.com/technology/internet/applications/news/index.cfm?newsid=2798

[aunty_marion]

Mine did that last week, but oddly only on the one I keep in a tab in Opera. The IE one seemed to be fine. Like you, I tried to reconfigure, and one thing would blow the whole lot (not dictionary, it was something else for me, forget what now). It seems to have settled down again, though.

[annearchy.livejournal.com]

I think that happened to me a few days ago. Rarr. My kid "kindly" reset it with other stuff I had no interest in. Pfft.

[que-sara-sara.livejournal.com]

Aside from now saying "iGoogle" mine looks the same as always. Don't know.

[mdlbear]

Mine reset itself a while ago (if I remember correctly) but came back when I logged back in to gmail -- my impression is that they made some change to the cookies and had problems dealing with the switchover.

It's possible that if you didn't have a gmail account or something else they could hang your identity on, you might have problems getting your configuration back after a cookie change. Or maybe not, depending on how they managed it and whether you were using it during the glitch.