Karl Poe

Google doesn’t care about you… Get over it!

Today I’ve noticed that FeedBurner does not update feed for one of my blogs. I’ve started investigating and ran into a weird error when trying to resync the feed: “Periscope simulated timeout expired”

Googling that error returns only a handfull of results. Searching WordPress forums, FeedBurner Google Group, and Twitter, adds couple more results to the bunch.

So far it seems that the problem is with non-English blogs and is specifically attributed to FeedBurner as both: people using WordPress and people using Drupal face it.

Unfortunately it seems that everyone who had this problem, had it in the past week or so and there’s no solution yet. To make it even more “fun”, there’s no way to contact Google about it. FeedBurner help site says to report it to the forums, but it does not seem like anyone is actually reading those forums.

Frustrating, but not really unexpected. Why would Google care for someone using their free service, when they don’t even care for Nexus One owners, who paid a lot of money for their devices. I’m starting to think that Steve Jobs was right when he called Google’s “Don’t be evil” motto BS. Google is way too big to not be evil. They just don’t give a sh*t any more…