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Sun, 14 Dec 2008 00:12:49 +0000

[...] Google Maps Outage. Did You Lose Your Way? [...]

By: Siddharth Agarwal

Siddharth Agarwal — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:07:32 +0000

Google thinks of itself as a company that no one can beat. All the Google blogs are up only to praise Google. If a site can’t be humble enough to mention beforehand something as trifle as an outage, then it is not serving its users right. Beware Google, this pride might take you to doom!

By: Esme Vos

Esme Vos — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:15:52 +0000

Google maps appear to be working again. The city maps on Mapplr are showing the data points (hotels, restaurants) exactly where they should be. What a relief! However, I realized that I need to back up all of that geo data onto a file so that if Google Maps loses that information, I can easily recreate the maps. I’m not sure I’d called Web 2.0 a colossal failure. It has allowed me to build those city maps quickly, easily, at no cost and so far, they’ve helped a lot of people.

By: Rich

Rich — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:28:07 +0000

1. It’s free with no SLA. If you are building mission critical apps based on free services, God help you.
2. We will eventually look back on the concept of Web 2.0 (at least the way it is currently being implemented) as a colossal failure.

By: John

John — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:05:26 +0000

I hope people aren’t complaining too much about a free service.

By: Keir Clarke

Keir Clarke — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:21:31 +0000

Thanks for the compliment Om! I would have blogged about the outage but I didn’t notice it. Perhaps it happened when I was in bed or only affected users in some regions. (Google Maps Mania)

By: Shane

Shane — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 07:03:00 +0000

This higlights the isses with Software as a service and virtualisation. If the service is down or slow…oops…