Google's Go

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Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Nick Sabalausky" <a at a.a> wrote in message 
> news:hjff0j$27i2$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> - Does nothing to change my opinion that Google has done nothing 
>> noteworthy outside of search engines and maybe their ad service.
>>
> 
> And their maps, of course. But then again, how google, of all companies, 
> can't manage to get the non-JS fallback to work cleanly and reliabily is 

I don't think Google _wants_ it to work. Whenever I use something from 
Google (other than the web search), I get the feeling they want to force 
me to enable JS.

Maybe disabling JS gets into the way of their ad- and data mining 
features, or they want to force Web 2.0 on everyone.

> beyond me (or how they can't manage to *start* the map centered around the 
> search point instead of starting it elsewhere and slowing scrolling it to 
> the center as it does now, or can't figure out that not everybody needs that 
> damn pop-up bubble on the search point *every* single time they do a map 
> search). Even mapquest was able to pull that stuff off years ago. 
> 
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