cleve callison’s blog

I’ve been working with my Google profile and ran into a possibly known bug in their Edit Photos routine. You should be able to call over one or more photo albums from Flickr or Picasa to your profile page. I have a bunch of photos on Flickr and decided to go that route. But no matter what I did they would not display and I got an Error message. A search (via Google, of course) showed that many others had had the same problem, but I couldn’t find a solution.

So I reluctantly activated a long-dormant Picasa account. I say reluctantly, because it’s of course part of Google and I didn’t want to surrender everything to them. I assumed they had stacked the deck in Profiles against Flickr and in favor of Picasa. I was attributing to “Don’t be evil” Google the motives often associated with Microsoft.

My bad, Google. I saw the same problem with Picasa as I had had with Flickr. So I gave up and left it alone for a couple of days. Then today I looked at the page again, and the Picasa photos were there. Maybe it just took Google’s servers a few hours to get everything settled.

There’s still a problem, though. I saw that I had uploaded duplicate images to Picasa, so I went in and deleted one. My Google profile (illustrated) shows a placeholder, captioned Cape Cod, in place of the photo; the real Cape Cod is to the left. I’ll check again in a few hours and see if this disappears when Google’s servers recycle.