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Google drops the ball (again)

by Cinda Baxter on September 15, 2009

in Google, The 3/50 Project

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Please know that my heart is at a full stop when I say this: Google Docs are screwed up yet again.

For the second time in a month, their forms and spreadsheet service is malfunctioning, vaporizing completed forms after the fact. What does that mean in street terms? You fill out an online form, click the “submit” button, and assume the company on other end has received your info. What’s happening instead? That info disappears once you click the button…and no one on either end of the transaction knows it until it’s too late.

To my horror, the “vaporizing” process has reached out and touched The 3/50 Project yet again, wiping out all Other Brick and Mortar Businesses registrations dating back to September 1st. The others forms on the site are fine–only the second category on our Jump In page has been affected. [click here to continue…]

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