What I don't get about Google

Google is one of my favorite webcompanies. And why not, they make brilliant products. Yes privacy is a concern, but they have proven to be true to their motto of don't be evil. However there are several things I don't get about them.

- Why have Blogger, Google Analytics, Adsense, Adwords and Feedburner and not integrate them into one convenient package? Why do I have to configure different things at different locations. Integrate and make it easy, so that uptake is high etc. --> why can't I see which pages/topics yield the most money in Adsense? (Though in my case the Agpo Nev 124 is still very popular and I will not write about it again)

- Why is it so hard for Google to understand that I search and read in two languages: English and Dutch. Fix it so that I can get a mix of Dutch and English results in search and especially News, mixed with really high ranking other language results... At the moment either the first ten are English or Dutch and that means I have to do two searches instead of one.

- Why don't all Blogger posts have automagic trackback links or something of the kind. Google knows who links to my blog, please fix that

- Why doesn't Google integrate its feedreader with a Delicious like system. I share items already and that should be enough... (tagging and starring is not for me)

- Why hasn't Jotspot come back unto the market? You bought it... now give it back, it was a great wiki system.. though Socialtext and Confluence are excellent too!

- Why hasn't Google become the default yellow pages yet... They have the technology, but searching for businesses on Google Maps still yields funky results. (at least here in .nl)

- Why do several Google products feel rough around the edges? they are brilliant, but just need hat extra 20% to be finished. (sounds like some of my papers and ideas, I know its not fun to do the last 20 percent, but it does make it better for the user)

- Why doesn't Google build more office productivity applications... Please help the workplace to move forward. There is so much data in an organisation. A couple of Google boxes with cheap apps that help us organize could make a real difference.

- Why haven't the implemented my idea for Google Adsense for Charities yet?

- What is the status on my last wish list for Google?

- Why are there no blogs/forums/trackers where we can freely dump our feature requests and see status updates?

What do you miss?

Any points I have forgotten?

Appeal to Google! Use Google Adsense for Good!

Please join me in this idea! I sent the Google Adsense people the following suggestion/feature request. The Google ads that you see around the page don't generate much income and well, I don't really care about it, they're partially a service to let you find interesting companies and partially a way for me to keep track of statistics (before Google Analytics came around). It's a bit of a long tail idea, where many small sites help generate a big amount of money for charity. I hope some people in the blogosphere help to give this idea some thrust and also encourage Google to allow people to easily let a charity become the beneficiary of the revenue the Google Ads generate. Below you find my mail to the Adsense people.

"Hi, I would like to suggest that you add the option to allow people donate the money they generate with Adsense directly to a charity of their choice. I currently have made the whopping amount of 8 dollars with my blog, with the current speed I'll get paid my first check in 12.5 years. And really I don't care that much about that money, but if I could opt to send the money to a cancer or handicapped people charity, I would love to do that. The little bits of many little blogs will probably add up to a nice sum for the charities involved.

I understand that it might be difficult to give a full range of charities but even if you would use only American ones, I would still send that little 8 dollars a year there. Your financial department might not like the idea of not generating the interest over all that unclaimed money, but that's small fries compared to the good it might do.

I'll also post this on my blog http://lunaticthought.blogspot.com and hope other people join in."