On: Google: we're having scaling issues, please stop distributing your FF extension

[silentbicycle]

All things considered, 1. I'm not surprised a plugin like that put heavy load on Google -- Bookmark every page? But the bookmarks being linked to searching is a small surprise. 2. It's quite impressive how smoothly they handled things. Don't be evil, indeed. 3. Does anybody look before commenting? The shirt is long gone...

[bgutierrez → silentbicycle]

Yeah. The great part of this story is that Google approached this developer and asked him nicely.

[kf → silentbicycle]

>3. Does anybody look before commenting? The shirt is long gone...

It's the kind of thing where you don't look because in the extra 10 seconds required to read the comments someone who didn't look could get the first post in.

[silentbicycle → kf]

Well, yes, but the fact that it even has comments should be a giveaway. People are asking for the shirt two days later.