For all the money Google makes, you'd think they'd be able to fix such a significant bug. Then again, IE is still not standards compliant: to each either own.
Well, I actually own a gadget directory: http://googlewidgets.net/ there is also http://googlemodules.com/ but the problem is no one knows about them, or at least not many. If all the developers protest and put links to these sites at the bottom of their gadget descriptions, then maybe the users would actually figure out that google is pulling great gadgets. This is my free advice (which i don't suggest you take [never take free advice!]): develop for another platform. That platform is dependent upon the product needs so I can't really give advice for which platform(s) (in no particular order): Opera Gadgets Firefox plugin Thunderbird plugin Apple Dashboard Gadget Windows Sidebar Gadget Yahoo Widget netvibes.com pageflakes.com AOL Gadget (you can actually post your iGoogle gadgets here without any significant changes!) iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad Android Blackberry Palm Facebook MySpace, Orkut (or Open Social) Wordpress Plugin Drupal Module Along these lines... a long while ago inline gadgets were deprecated but the old popular inline gadgets were grandfathered in... but they were locked so code couldn't be changed. They said to all of us last standing inline gadget owners that the gadgets were going to stop working in December. They flipped the switch in February... but not completely. I'm not sure what all that is about but there are about 1% of the users are still using it. So apparently, they couldn't even do that right. sigh. oh well. bygones. J On Mar 22, 3:59 am, JL <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
