Tag: gmail

  • Even Google Makes Mistakes

    This is an expert from a Gmail Blog Post re: the recent gmail outage: Unexpected side effects of some new code that tries to keep data geographically close to its owner caused another data center in Europe to become overloaded, and that caused cascading problems from one data center to another. It took us about…


  • How To Delete All Contacts From Gmail

    Update October 2010: These instructions are no longer valid. Take a look at voyageurs60’s comment. If you’ve ever tried to delete more than 20 contacts in gmail, you might have noticed an error message informing you that you’re only allowed to delete 20 contacts at a time. I don’t really think of Google as a…