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GBS: Google Blinders Syndrome

Title: GBS: Google Blinders Syndrome
URL: http://www.rimmkaufman.com/rkgblog/2006/09/07/gbs-google-blinders-syndrome/
Printed: January 5, 2009
Source: The Rimm-Kaufman Group Blog, info@rimmkaufman.com

Yesterday I blogged that Windows Live was stale on some smaller feeds. My unspoken assumption was that Google was not. Now, switching back and forth between Google Personalized Home and Windows Live, I now see that both provide very recent feed data for more popular feeds. For smaller blogs, sometimes MSN is days stale, and other times Google is days stale.

I had assumed Google was always fresh because, errr, … well because they’re Google.

Similar to the feared GDS malady, maybe this was an momentary attack of GBS: Google Blinders Syndrome.

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  1. Alan, September 8, 2006:

    Philipp Lenssen takes the joke further over at Google Blogoscoped. :)

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