I love about 90% of what Google does.  Microsoft, despite all of its efforts to win me over to their search engines has about a zero percent chance of being successful.  If Google is not your home page I seriously think something is wrong with you.  I think they have medications for such problems.  Having said that Google is not welcome on my desktop (Google Desktop is within the 10% of things that are Colin no-no’s).

On Saturday morning Google-the-mighty had some trouble:  http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/013109-human-error-caused-google-search.html?fsrc=rss-security

It was brief, a mere blip on the radar.  I was on the web all morning on Saturday and I missed it.  Bummer.  I would like to be part of such moments in time.  Seeing Google have a misstep like that would be a memorable event.  But what I thought was fun was how quickly Google got to the business of blaming a human for the snafu.  As technology becomes more and more automated we, as the consumers of the convenience it brings, need to have a lot of faith in its abililty to not make mistakes that do bad things.  Google is hip to this.  Was the problem really caused by a person?  I guess so.  But even if it wasn’t I suspect that Google would massage the truth to make it look like it was.

I guess we will need to worry when we type a query in that ever-so-simple interface we all know and love and it comes back saying, “I’m sorry, Colin.  I’m afraid I can’t do that.”