Ask HN: Is Google really slow right now? (or is it just for me?)

Re:Ask HN: Is Google really slow right now? (or is it just ... by old-gregg on Thursday May 14, 2009 @11:31AM (#608914)

Google services has been steadily getting slower and slower for me. I can't recall the last time when google maps loaded the entire map successfully: 1-3 fragments are always missing.

I also stopped using gmail and switched to Mail.app. Gmail completely deteriorated for me: too often I'd press "Send" and it would just sit there forever with "Still working..." on top.

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Re:Ask HN: Is Google really slow right now? (or is it just ... by nikolayv on Thursday May 14, 2009 @11:54AM (#608969)

GMail has sucked for me in this and other ways too for months now, but right now everything seems fine (all Google services).

Perhaps, I was a little late to the party.

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Re:Ask HN: Is Google really slow right now? (or is it just ... by nikolayv on Thursday May 14, 2009 @12:01PM (#608993)

Actually, this reminds me that the time seems ripe for the next big steps in browser-based E-mail, the next product that can take GMail's features like lots of storage and mostly search as a starting point. My conjecture is that lots of people are tired of GMail sucking and would give other web clients a shot. And it might take a while before good service returns to GMail (if ever) given the rumors about the hairy state of the code base.

Anyone know of anything that I should take a look at?

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