Sally_Stitts - 7:33 pm on Mar 3, 2012 (gmt 0)

Since I am not a programmer, I must rely on Google's supplying of code snippets.
I just checked again. My head is spinning.

EVERY D@MNED TIME I visit the the Google code snippet for the Google Profile button, it has been changed.
Four times now, that I am aware of.
NOW, it was -
<A HREF="https://plus.google.com/107520370013#*$!#*$!#*$!" rel=author>
<g:plus href="https://plus.google.com/1075203700139#*$!#*$!xx" width="300" height="69" ></g:plus>

EVERY D@MNED TIME I visit the the Google code snippet for the Google Plus button, it has been changed.
Four times now, that I am aware of.
The <g:plusone></g:plusone> code is
NOW <g:plusone annotation="inline"></g:plusone>

First, it was the asynchronous thing. After that, it was the fixing of omitted code.

I am going to make a bold statement here -
"Google is TERRIBLE at providing "code snippets".
Isn't there anyone over there that knows what they are doing?
I say no, not any longer. The geniuses are gone, and the bean counters are now running the show.

Here is my deal. I do not use any CMS. All of my pages are designed individually, by hand, by me. It takes me 2 weeks to go through all my pages and change the codes. This really irritates me. I am about ready to chuck all this "Plus" BS, and take any hit coming my way. Maybe try it again in a year - perhaps Google can get it right by then.

The problem is, that for the first time, my AdSense run rate is 6 figures, not including cents. So I am motivated to try and comply with all of Google's wishes. But for how long?

I would much rather concentrate on producing content, and not fixing Google's amateur, trashy, ill-conceived "code snippets". Once again, I feel like the guy in the old cowboy movie, with the bad guys shooting at my feet, shouting "Dance, you SOB, Dance!"

Does anyone have anything to say about that? I'm piffed.
I'm not going to have enough time to edit this enough to get it right, before I am cut off. So I will just go away, and discuss this on my site, where I WON'T get cut off. All I can concentrate on now is racing to hit the submit button. This will take me hours to document.

If I am going to post something long and complicated here, I need to do it first in TextWrangler, and then post it here. As in, code 1 (date), code 2 (date and what changed), code 3 (date and what changed), code 4 (date and what changed), etc., etc.

It would be EXTREMELY helpful if Google gave us a LIST of their changes, but that won't happen, because it would highlight their incompetence. Everyone must continue to check back, and endlessly revise their "code snippets". Or sink into oblivion. WAY BEYOND just frustrating.
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