Indeed, google is notoriously hard to reach...
...when the police starts rounding up board members...
For not replying to an e-mail? I'd only wish
The court, not being stupid, will probably send a few "canary" emails.
The court, while certainly not stupid, is very probably lazy. And won't continue bothering google out of its own initiative once a "settlement" is reached.
It will take a continued action by the consumer watchdog organization to keep the court interested, but it's a very fine line to walk between "keeping the court interested" and "not annoy the court by pestering it too much"
If Google decides to discontinue all Google services in Germany as a result, would that really be a "win" for the German consumer?
More likely outcome is that they change the auto-reply text of the mail to "thank you for your valuable feedback", and then still continue to ignore it. The customer will be none-the-wiser, and unable to prove that feedback gets ignored.
Please, Google, do continue to not "improve" the experience for "older" browsers. I've had all the UX "improvement" I can take.
Well said! I fullheartedly agree, and set the user agent of my firefox to version 0.10: the experience is a breeze! And yes, it even prevents google from inserting its own tracking into some of the links...
And there are no tracking cookies or similar inserted into the links, just the plain links. Overall a good experience
... however, the normal site (for "recent" browsers) does insert tracking cookies.
I didn't check though whether the results were maybe outdated (newer pages not listed...), that would be nasty...
A test with google news shows that this is fortunately not the case, it shows news from within today. So if it is outdated, it's certainly outdated by less than one day.
I didn't notice the problem you're mentioning about link visited being broken. I searched twice for myself, the first time I clicked on one of my links. After the second search, that link was correctly colored purple, as it should. However, I did notice a small delay before it turned from blue to purple.
And there are no tracking cookies or similar inserted into the links, just the plain links. Overall a good experience
I didn't check though whether the results were maybe outdated (newer pages not listed...), that would be nasty...
was it really the best idea to go out in a suit made of meat and barbeque sauce?
do you want fries with that.
The difference is they take "no thanks" for an answer.
Ya'll hear about the geometer who went to the beach to catch some rays and became a tangent ?