Javalizard, yes, I agree 100% with your message. Similar situation, asked several times to different forums, not 9 months but more.
It is a shame for a company which made a fortune with search engine that it is unable to fix or just answer to our problems. Maybe we may help: if they have no knowledge or resources to make a decent directory, I'm sure that there is a lot of developers who can do it. Or, maybe it is time for us to pack and move to FB? On 20 mar., 02:09, javalizard <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
