Google pulls Personalized Home Page service out of the fire
By Paul McNamara on Fri, 04/27/07 - 5:52am.
All seems to be well – or at least getting much better – in the land of Google Personalized Home Page service early this morning as users from around the world report that their settings that were gone and feared lost yesterday have magically reappeared. The problem, the origin of which remains unexplained, had users of the service fuming for much of Thursday and Google personnel “frantic” over finding a fix. This morning, we read on a Google discussion board mainly expressions of relief: “Awesome :) Worx again! Thx to all,” writes one user. And … “Mine is back as well," adds another. "Cheers Googlers. 17 hours from problem to fix, pretty spiffy for a free service.” Not all corners of the globe were reporting restored settings. And, of course, no good deed goes unpunished, so there are dissenting voices. “Well!" huffs one user. "I am happy for all of you who had lost so much stuff but nevertheless, me, as I could remember most of the gadgets I had installed only a few days ago, I still spent about 2 hours to retrieve them from the Google directory and REDOING my Google homepage. ... and now, this morning, I have got the great surprise that the old one has been restored! I AM SORRY BUT IF GOOGLE COULD HAVE BEEN A LITTLE MORE PROFESSIONAL BY WARNING US THAT WE WOULD GET OUR HOMEPAGE BACK, BECAUSE IT WOULD HAVE SAVED ME OF MY TIME ! and no! I can't believe that I'd be the ONLY ONE who did restore my homepage before Google finally did it!” Oh, stop whining. Much to Google’s credit, the company did keep users informed throughout the troubles -- a courtesy RIM never gave its BlackBerry clients -- and clearly stated that they did not know whether the settings could be restored, meaning, of course, that they might be. On the other hand, some users took the episode as a learning experience: "Hurrah! Mine is back too ... just this minute," writes this person. "What a relief. … normality has been restored. A new lesson in life to not rely on pages over which, ultimately, I have no control!"
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Google Home Page gone May 1
At approximately 9:30 a.m. this morning EDT all my Google Home page items disappeared. I had no problems last week. If they have fixed the problem, it is broken again! I am sooooo messed up. I will never find all those RSS feeds again. Has anyone heard anything about this TODAY (May 1)?
Gone
Yep happened with me too.... What is going on Google? I hope you guys can restore these pages. To rebuild them will be a nightmare......
Same here, I also lost my
Same here, I also lost my personlaized web page settings. It was there in the morning but now they are gone. I can see 6 months old snapshot of my personalized webpage. This is so frustating !!!
mine too
everyone on the web says its fixed on saterday and everyone got their stuff back but mine broke this morning, i was using it i closed the window and opened it 30 seconds later and its all the default stuff. I want my stuff back, is there anyway i can further the process?
it's back
The stuff that disappeared this morning came back midafternoon. Phew.
8 months later, problem still not fixed, but read on ...
I have been using a Windows Mobile 5 phone (PPC 6700-Audiovox on Alltel-my work account) for almost a year, at which point I discovered the ability to "Personalize My Home Page for My Mobile Device". It works (note present tense) great on that phone :)
A week ago, I purchased 2 of the same phones (PPC 6700-Audiovox), through my personal mobile carrier Sprint.
I've been perplexed by the fact that after login, I cannot view the same page when I browse to www.google.com/m using my Sprint phones as I do when I browse with the Alltel phone.