very long loading times on blogspot sites as well.... Is this only me?

also, google analytics are making every page that has them load foreeeeveeeeerrrrrrr....

All seems well at this end.

Hmmm. weird. (she says wtaching the "Connecting to google-analytics.com..." go on forever on this page.)

it's working fine for me too.

a few friends in Denmark are emailing me saying they can't reach google images or blogspot at all. Might be something going on over here (I mean, we probablly share the same route out to the big wide intarweb). I have no problems surfing anything google when I do it from within my UK server.

I had this problem at one point, and no one else did, so I think sometimes it has to do with certain... um, hubs? Or something? For us in the Fringelands. Maybe.

Try clearing your cache. If you're using firefox, press CTRL+SHFT+DEL and do it that way.

What is Windows Task Manager?

I dunno, What is Windows Task Manager? I don't use windows. The cache has been cleared, the problem lies not inside my computers here in Denmark, since all of them are having the same issue, but clearly somewhere in the network since my machines in the UK let me surf google just fine. Oddness.

(yes, I said computers, right now I have three on next to me and a laptop over on the couch. weee!)

correction: I'm not in Denmark, but Sweden. I was just thinking out loud there, I suspect that my ISP connects through the Danish famous bottle-neck down in Copenhagen and that is why I and a few friends in Copenhagen suffer, while a few friends up north in Sweden who ride out on the net through another route enterily have no issues right now.

GMail just about always makes me refresh and refresh and refresh in order to log in.

Um, they're making millions now? How about some damn service, especially for us beta-since-back-in-the-day diehards?

WTF? Profits go up stellar and service goes down hellward?

I uninstalled Google desktop too. And some Dell (whom I'm coming to hate) stuff that constantly wants to back up my files (which I can do just fine on my own, thankoo.) I REALLY get the feeling lately that certain parties would like my hard drive files to be about as private as my online e-mail, which ain't much.

I don't think that's the least bit paranoid right now, either. Real nice U.S. gov't we've got. Not just the Patriot Act, but the CIA just admitted to destroying a bunch of video records of torture at Guantanamo. The gov't will do anything it pleases from here on in. That's the precedent set by Dubya.

I've been having horrid load times for Google websites for a while now. Last week AT&T changed something, I swear, and it went glacial -- and everything else that was fine became slow the way Google USED to be.

So I installed a local caching DNS server on my Windows box, and it's like a whole new web, including Google. I haven't seen "Looking up ...." since.

I'm getting lots of broken links today. It's like the internet is broken.