Comments on: Bugs? Especially international bugs..

By: nick

nick — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:45:02 +0000

massive scary google bug:

I share a macbook with my girlfriend. We both have separate accounts on the macbook but sometimes we log in to our google web services using the other person’s account.

On her account when she loads igoogle it shows her name as logged in in the upper right and all her gadgets and news and stuff. But one of the gadgets is google chat. The crazy bug is that it has all my contacts and is signed in as me! My google is all set up in the USA and all her stuff is set up in France. When I go to http://www.gmail.com it logs in as me. When I go to igoogle.com it logs in as me (with my gadgets and everything) but when I go to igoogle.fr it logs in as her with all her gadgets but my contacts and stuff!

Yucky ugly scary bug!

By: Claudio

Claudio — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:05:07 +0000

Currently the localized version of google at google.ch (switzerland) is the only version of google I can reach.
If I try to use any service on google.com it is so sluggish that it is unusable. This includes the webmail.
IMAP instead _does_ work.

I had to switch to yahoo for many services, including search, since the toolbar uses google.com.
These problems have been going on since at least yesterday.

By: John Buczek

John Buczek — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 06:19:23 +0000

I live in the Philippines. Google.com.ph is composed in Tagalog by default even though that dialect is native to only about a third of the population. When using the Google search bar in Firefox for a search, there is no obvious way to switch to English.

I know that I can go to

Google.com.ph/en

but that cancels the convenience of the google search bar on browsers.

Should be an easy matter to fix.

By: Borislav

Borislav — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:12:14 +0000

Here is one bug:

I am adding a new account to my google analytics.

At the first step where I type the domain name there is field for choosing of time zone:
“Time zone country or territory:”

My country is Bulgaria, so I find it and choose it, but it is strange that it says “Bulgaria GMT+3″. And whole territory of Bulgaria is GMT+2, not 3.

By: Sidny Smith

Sidny Smith — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 22:04:56 +0000

the autocomplete feature is great…
i also like the ‘Define:’ command
but they’re not properly integrated; the autocomplete drop-down suggestions omits the colon, thus achieving an undesirable result.

By: Tejpal Thatte

Tejpal Thatte — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:04:54 +0000

From what I understand, the Google News U.S. web page gets updated after a particular time interval if you keep it open in the browser. But the problem comes when someone is watching a video related to some news event and if the length of the video in terms of time is more than the time interval after which the whole page gets updated.

Either that, or if somehow you are close to the time the page is supposed to automatically get updated/refreshed and you start a news related video close to the refresh time the page refreshes and your video is either lost (because of new link updates) or you have to scroll your web page down to the point where you had that video earlier and then relaunch it.

I was just wondering whether there is something that can be done about this. Is it possible to show a countdown timer that says something like “Will refresh next in: 9 minutes” at least? Or maybe not do a refresh if it is detected that a video is playing and maybe refresh when the algorithm is completely sure that it won’t disrupt any user activity?

By: Hans Verhagen

Hans Verhagen — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:08:03 +0000

Google is unable to detect correct IP addresses. Example I search in Google India on the web for “mp3 hindi ringtone” (without quotes) then the site http://dreamzatul.blogspot.com/ appears on spot 7. This site is hosted in the USA, but, as far as I know, setting in WMT is India. It gets even worse: when I choose “pages from India” the site even appears higher: spot number 3 ! How is this possible ?

By: Ian Taylor

Ian Taylor — Fri, 29 May 2009 14:21:31 +0000

IN javascript regular expressions:
^AB([3-4][0-9]|5[0-6])$ works correctly with IE and FF but not with Chrome
The alternative expressions:
^AB([34][0-9]||5[0-6])$ or ^AB(3[0-9]|4[0-9]|5[0-6])$ do work with all 3 browsers.
Try matching the string AB10 and you get a match when you shouldn’t with Chrome.

By: Maxime

Maxime — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:34:10 +0000

The Google is unable to find ++К, which is a new logo of one Russian long distance telecoms operator. See more: http://blog.dataparksearch.org/146

By: Frantisek Malina

Frantisek Malina — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 21:59:43 +0000

Search for “Google add url”. The page that rank is a “thank you page”.
Thank you pages should never rank.

1. If you send traffic to those you usually break someone’s conversion tracking.
2. If users visit those from Google search results they won’t be happy about it.

Anyway, add slash after “addurl” and you’ll get the correct page.