Following all my troubles with the iGoogle application, ("Groaning Over Google Improvements"), I was pleasantly surprised one day to find...the problem simply resolved itself. Was it something Google did? I will never know.
But now, my iGoogle application is behaving again. I can update my To-Do list! Finally.
My iGoogle "To-Do List" updates again - at long last
About the same time this happened, as I was thinking warm and fuzzy thoughts again about my favorite Search Engine Giant, a very weird thing happened that was well-documented in the technical blogosphere (my to-do list issue was not, incidentally)...Google made a teeny tiny little (human, they think) error, and the result was that EVERY search result for EVERY keyword search was flagged as a site that "could harm your computer."
Great Scott! I was horrified. Why would the Brooklyn Museum of Art (not known for their nefarious technical activity), and the other museum shops I was researching want to harm my computer? It made NO SENSE.
Rather than deal with the bad consequences of clicking through to a nasty malware sige, I shut my laptop down, not sure what was happening. It was Saturday morning, and I didn't really NEED to do any more searches. By the next day, of course, all was well, and I read the press about the search glitch on the technical news sites, such as PC Mag.com.
It just goes to show that you can't put all your trust in your technical tools. So even though they do a lot of things very, very well, let us all remember (and repeat the following phrase if you dare): "Google is Not God. Google is Not God..."
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