This is shocking. I've been watching messages like these pass through this group for at least 4, maybe 5 months. This all takes me back to when Google deleted my first set of gadgets about 9 months ago or so. I had 200+ gadgets in the directory and not a one spam in any way, only one had a small ad in it. It was only a few at a time. I noticed the number of my gadgets going down. At first i was very confused, then it seemed that Google was purposefully deleting them, and was angry. Now..... I just don't care. It seems that in the last 9 months or so, even new gadgets being submitted were and are being deleted. At that point, the iGoogle platform stopping being a rational business choice for me and this is the advice to all my clients.
You might ask, who the hell am I to have any sway. I'm not really any one. At one point I was the #3 developer of all iGoogle Gadgets. I was invited to be a Select Google Gadget Ad Developer (my name is still on that page and i get requests for it sometimes, which is reasonable). That was... until Google started being a google gadget ad developer.... THE Google Gadget Ad Developer. That nascent business model was a flop for all individuals involved. Google then even tried to hire me to develop gadgets for them at half my going rate. They just wanted to offer me my place back at half my rate without any google employee benefits... riiiiight. Google also asked me to be a beta-prerelease Tester of their Open Social platform which Myspace uses. It was a two day code fest at the Google offices (all those stories about their free buffet lunches every day are true). But really? iGoogle has lost all its luster for me. I'll still use it but mainly just because i actually use my own gadgets, they are neat and not listed in the directory. Sorry folks. Your loss. Back to reality. From my experience and what I've seen go through these boards, the lotto may give better odds than getting your gadget back in the directory permanently. I still haven't seen them address the problem other than "it happens, soon we'll fix it." Advice has been given to resubmit the gadget. But i haven't heard anything from Google about where they are with the fix or even if they are working on it. It's been 9 months. How hard could it be to merge the data from an older database? How hard is it to put log statements in various places and start doing some testing. I dunno, like maybe set up some automated accounts for testing en-mass? It really seems like Google has abandoned this platform. I don't see any reason to support a disfunctional portal... one that punishes developers for no apparent reason, either by fault or design. Either way, it's apparently still not fixed which is something they have control over and aren't doing. Here is what my analytics say on those lost gadgets... every month 5-10% of the users delete the gadget (and this is averaged over the 200+ gadgets). That is what you can expect. Anyway. I hope this helps you get your gadget back in.... or helps you let go of your work on iGoogle. javalizard On Mar 19, 3:26 pm, JCF Admin <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! I hope that I haven't missed anything obvious, but I can't seem to > find an answer after a search of the FAQs and of this forum so... > > I submitted a simple quote gadget this past > December:http://www.jcf.org/new/custom_code/randomquote_gadget/randomquote_gad... > It went up and (after some rejiggering to get it to display properly > on IE) worked just fine. Through December and January I was able to > find the gadget by searching in the iGoogle gadget search. > > For the past month or so, however, it seems to have disappeared from > the search function entirely. > > I can still find the "About this Gadget" page by clicking on the > button from my iGoogle page. And the "Add this Gadget" buttons seem to > work as well. > > But no one who searches for "Joseph Campbell" or "Insight and > Inspiration" or "Quotes, Mythology" can find it. > > What gives? Have I done something wrong? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iGoogle Developer Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Gadgets-API?hl=en.
