Posts Tagged ‘Google’

Halloween Horrors: Google Earth Mysteries

Sunday, October 26th, 2025

People find all sorts of interesting things in Google Earth, some of which are more unsettling than others.

These include:

  • A glitch that made everything in New Baltimore, New York look weird, distorted and ghostly.
  • A car that showed up submerged in a suburban Florida retention. Turned out there was dead guy in it that had gone missing 22 years before.
  • A plane deep in the Cambodian jungle that might be flight MH370. (You would think someone would have investigated the site by now, even if only with a drone. And the intact wing shape seems unlikely in a jungle crash situation.)
  • A gathering of people in clown masks that might have been members of a drug cartel.
  • One possible murder scene.
  • One actual murder scene.

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    All Glory [ ]

    Friday, October 19th, 2012

    Random Google auto-completes that amuse me:

    All glory…

    1. …is fleeting
    2. …to the Hypnotoad

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    Dear Google: Thanks Ever So Much for Breaking Attachments in Gmail for Firefox

    Wednesday, March 14th, 2012

    Yesterday Google managed to break uploading attachments in Firefox, so that it doesn’t do anything when you click the Attack a File Link, and it’s still broken as I write this. I am not the only one having the problem.

    Worse still, Gmail used to have a work-around for the problem, instructing people to go to Settings page and disable “Advanced attachments.” Well, guess what? They’ve removed that setting from the settings page, so you’re just stuck with it being broken.

    This may be a simple screw-up, but it follows more user-hostile actions from Google, such as not carrying search strings over from the main Google search to the Google News search, and removing the Google Blog search from both the main search bar and the More menu as well. It seems like Google is trying to make their system less usable to…what? Force them to use Chrome and Blogger? Whatever the reason, it’s extremely annoying.

    Updated: As of just after noon today, the upload attachment problem seems to be fixed.

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    A New Google Irritation

    Thursday, November 10th, 2011

    1. Search for something in Google.
    2. At the top of the search results page, click on “News.”
    3. Instead of showing the news results on your search term, as it did every single day up until now, it blanks the search field and just show you a regular search page, rather than carrying over the term you just searched for.

    Why, Google? Why you gotta play me like that?

    (Note that I refrain from listing irritating Facebook changes, since those seem to occur every single day…)

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