Blogoscoped has a list of fifteen annoying things about Google, from interface issues all over as the site has grown like ponzi, to the mere existence of Orkut. Fun — and mostly accurate:
3) I am shown the number of e-mails in my spam folder in Gmail, causing me to obsessively check it since I get more spam than regular mail. Although, I must say Google gets 99% of the spam and has never miscategorized a message. That accuracy is what makes me mad about being pestered about the contents of my spam folder.4) Google Reader and Gmail have different interfaces, when in fact the data structures that they represent have intrinsically similar properties [that should be invisible to the user] and thus should have a common interface. I’ve been saying this, and Yahoo! recently picked up on it. Kudos to Yahoo! I won’t be switching but I did admire.
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Talk about praising with faint damnation.
My personal most annoying thing about Google, which goes more directly to how the company is run than the others listed: it currently takes two and a half weeks to get a Chinese-language AdWord ad approved for display.
I suppose this would be more of an issue if there were a market for Chinese-language advertising on the Internet, but still, for a company floating on cash that offers its user interface in Klingon, you’d expect more attention to obscure languages.
Two major things wrong.
1. An increasing number of responses in the search engine bring you back to Amazon, frequently through what I call phantom sites. For example, I search for a drill; I get a response for “Joes Tools; I go to the site and get the Amazon page for tools.
2. Ever fewer responses really provide the real range of stores offering a product. Same old few stores with a very limited range of prices. Froogle seems to search paid advertisers rather than the web