审视Google

I use Gmail and Google Reader most.
Seriously Gmail is so dated. I am sick of it but so tied to it. It does have more features than many other email system. But it is ugly, messy, and have absolutely no style and difficult on the eye.

Google doc is still mediocre. But I still use it. Because there is nothing better.

Of course, I almost forgot, Google search. It is probably still the best. But Google hasn’t really innovate in this area for a long time while Yahoo and Microsoft is doing some nice things. There are still many problems with search, I am still often not very satisfied with search results. But ok… Google is still the king.

Google map is ok. But the POI mistakes are just ruining it. Experienced a few times.

Google Video is a joke.

Google Voice is ok. I use it because of free SMS.

Google books… I don’t know. I don’t use it.

Google Translate… not easy to use. But I can use it if I bare with it.

Blogs… really? how many people still use Google’s blogs

Calendar.. is ok. But now I am back to MobileMe becuase it can push to my iPhone and sync with MobileMe cloud.

Photos… I basically only see Chinese people use Picasa web albums. And it is ugly. Flickr feels better.

Reader… probably the No.1 thing I like about Google right now.

Others… many failed products.

Google checkout: never took off.

Google desktop really still anyone use it on Windows 7?

iGoogle is probably the most ugly customized home page on earth. I would take Yahoo or netvibes instead of it.

Product search is ok. helps me find cheap stuff sometimes. But often the price other calculations are inaccruate and frustrating. And it seems it still doesn’t understand the different between British pounds and US dollars.

Google toobar… no thanks. I am not over 50 years old.

Trends… gimick products. Fun sometimes, overall quite useless.

Google code… I wish sourceforge is still the god. Google code.. the interface is just…

Orkut… what’s that?!

Sites… does anyone use this?

Talk… ok…I use it sometimes. But why can’t I send files? And I use it with Adium. Basically, it is not even feature rich compared to AIM or Yahoo Messenger.

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