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April 2, 2008

Previous Google Blog Republished in Web 2.0

My previous blog entry discussing problems with Google alerts got republished in Web 2.0's online magazine.

As if to emphasize the points I made in the entry, I got a Google alert on the publication. Here is its content:

Google News Alert for: smithline

Intalio Announces Their Open Source BPM Suite as Service - Intalio ...
SYS-CON Media - Montvale,NJ,USA
The realities of exe By Neil Smithline Is Google growing too fast to continue to produce innovative software while maintaining the quality that has become ...
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At least it got my name correct but otherwise it is a mess. It mangled what was on the Web 2.0 site such that the quote it emailed me is not even remotely correct (or even remotedly English).

Hopefully Google will figure out how to get their quality back up to where it was while continuing to innovate.

Update: Thursday April 17, 2008 Apparently I'm not the only one who is wondering about Google's dramatic growth. This excerpt is from Sys-Con's SEO/SEM magazine, a search engine-focused magazine.

MOST READ THIS WEEK
Viewpoint: Is Google Growing Too Fast?
By Neil Smithline
Microsoft's Weekend Bombshell to Yahoo! BoD: Off Come the Gloves!
By Search News Desk
Yahoo! Bets on AMP! To Counter Google and Microsoft
By Search News Desk
Google Moving Offline
By Maureen O'Gara
Yahoo Explains Why Microsoft Should Pay More or Better Yet Go Away
By Maureen O'Gara
Responding to the "Adobe Flex Shortcomings" Java Blog
By Yakov Fain
Virtualization and Cloud Pumping, Microsoft, Dell, HP and Google
By Maureen O'Gara
Yahoo's China Partner Messes Up Yahoo's Pretty Valuation
By Maureen O'Gara
Complex Event Processing - The Secret Weapon for SOA Application Performance Management
By SOA World Magazine News Desk
Digital Identity and Service-Oriented Architecture - Hope and Glory
By SOA World Magazine News Desk
AppStream to Exhibit at SYS-CON's Virtualization Conference & Expo
By Virtualization News Desk
Google's Going Through Its First Rough Patch
By Maureen O'Gara

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