Boy, I'm a little perplexed. Several sites are announcing the launch of Google Print in beta. I announced it last May, and this blog first pointed to Google's book-related search results at the print.google.com domain in December, 2003. As far as I know this thing is long-launched, regardless of CNET's assertion that Google announced the launch on its own blog—it did no such thing. Google did blog about the full-text availability of its first wave of public domain scans within Google Print beta. That's big enough news.
1. I was reading about the publisher and I think it's a great idea from what I've read. However, I'm not sure google can pull it off. It's grown so big so fast that it's begun having problems. An example is their gmail notifier. I kept getting the "connection was refused" message shortly after downloading it, although it did allow me to log on one time. I haven't been able to go to my gmail account since then, even when not using notifier. I get "connection refused" messages with both IE and Firefox. I never had a problem logging in before I installed notifier. What's worse, is that I can find no information on this problem at all, and I know others this has happened to. All of us have had to stop using gmail because we can't even connect to the site.
The point I'm trying to make, is google needs to slow down and go back and fix the bugs in their services before taking on such a large project as Publisher.
Posted at 4:42AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Anita Baker