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As simultaneously announced on GigaOM and The Apple Blog, Giga Omni Media has acquired The Apple Blog. This adds an entire blog of Apple-specific coverage to our growing network. If you’re keeping score, the GigaOM family of blogs now includes:

• GigaOM, for reporting and analysis of the big stories in Web 2.0, mobile, and other new technology.
• Web Worker Daily, for coverage of the new world of online work.
• NewTeeVee, for everything related to the video revolution.
• Earth2Tech, looking at the intersection of green and technology.
• OStatic, with thorough coverage of open source software and its ramifications.
• jkOnTheRun, covering the world of mobile devices.
• The Apple Blog, for news of all things Apple-related.

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Here at WWD, we’re all big users of Google, in many of its incarnations. From the search engine itself to GMail to Google Documents to Grand Central to Google Reader, it’s hard for us even to imagine a world without Google. Judging by your responses to our most recent open thread, many of you feel the same way.

And yet…despite their enormous success, despite the zillions of smart people working there, there are still things that confound, upset, and annoy us about Google’s various operations. Sure, we get that sometimes there are other things on their mind, and that writing good software takes time, and that it’s even tougher when you have to work in a variety of browsers. Even so, here are the top 25 things (give or take) we hate about Google.
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