{"id":1904,"date":"2007-04-16T17:01:10","date_gmt":"2007-04-16T17:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2007\/04\/slow_google_pre\/"},"modified":"2007-04-16T17:01:10","modified_gmt":"2007-04-16T17:01:10","slug":"slow_google_pre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/slow_google_pre\/","title":{"rendered":"Slow Google Press Releases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why are Google press releases emailed so slowly? Given everything else Google does is incredibly fast and efficient, I find it odd that GooglePress mailshots take so long to appear.<br \/>\nAt around 14:40 this afternoon, I noticed message posted on the <a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/04\/agreement-with-clear-channel-radio.html\">Google Blog<\/a>, via Bloglines (in other words, it was posted earlier). The message in turn pointed to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/intl\/en\/press\/pressrel\/clear_channel_radio.html\">press release<\/a> from Google.<br \/>\nYet it took over two hours before I got a copy in my inbox of the same email &#8211; and I can honestly report that we&#8217;re not experiencing any email issues here today.<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t doubt that Google&#8217;s email list is awfully long, but the press release I finally received at 16:59 is unpersonalised and in plain text. And Google does have an incredible amount of resource to call upon for a job so trivial. Their emails are administered, seemingly, via Google Groups, so there&#8217;s no real excuse as I get other Google Groups emails in a very timely fashion.<br \/>\nOn the right hand side of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/press\/\">Google Press page<\/a>, we&#8217;re told we can sign up to get &#8220;timely news from Google.&#8221; Just not <em>that<\/em> timely&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why are Google press releases emailed so slowly? Given everything else Google does is incredibly fast and efficient, I find it odd that GooglePress mailshots take so long to appear. At around 14:40 this afternoon, I noticed message posted on the Google Blog, via Bloglines (in other words, it was posted earlier). The message in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}