Re:Will Google Kill my Blog on December 6th?
by erik on Tuesday December 03, 2013 @12:14AM
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As a small aside, I think this is the first time I have seen Google referred to as the Borg. That was always Microsoft's title in the slashdot days.
Times have changed.
Re:Will Google Kill my Blog on December 6th?
by davidw on Tuesday December 03, 2013 @05:18AM
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After having been in this industry for a bit more than 15 years, and having read a lot of history, I'm beginning to suspect that due to the economics of it, there is always going to be a Borg. IBM, Microsoft, Google, and so on.
Re:Will Google Kill my Blog on December 6th?
by hrrsn on Tuesday December 03, 2013 @01:23AM
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Anecdotal, but I've had great experience with Google Apps paid support as well as support for our Adwords campaigns (we spend about $40k a year with them on Adwords).
Re:Will Google Kill my Blog on December 6th?
by raverbashing on Tuesday December 03, 2013 @06:00AM
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Can you elaborate? What kind of issues you had with GApps and Adwords and what kind of support you got from them?
Re:Will Google Kill my Blog on December 6th?
by chris_mahan on Tuesday December 03, 2013 @11:47AM
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see my other reply on this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6837320
I'm not talking about less than $1 million a year account.
I'm told by contacts inside the Borg that things have gotten better in the last few years -- for example, now you can find a phone number to reach a call center that will /dev/null your ticket for you rather than having to /dev/null it yourself -- but the last few times I needed it having a $X0,000 a year account didn't rate a reply. I'm reliably told that $Y00,000 a month accounts didn't have a transformatively better experience, although, quote, "At least they'll lie to me. It's better than silence. If you collect enough lies you can triangulate off of them."