Blake Ross, one of the key people behind the Firefox browser, says that he is losing faith in the antics of the search engine Google.

Google certainly seems to be stumbling for a while now. Just yesterday we heard about how several Gmail users lost all their emails. Google's very wordy "apology" was long on platitudes and short on technical information. Likewise, I am beginning to get worried about other Google services such as docs.google.com, which is the erstwhile Writely. What if users like me were to lose documents stored there? The loss of Gmail messages is certainly a huge blow not only to Google but to all online service providers that facilitate storage of documents, emails and other pieces of information. Given the fact that Gmail is not a paid service, perhaps users are going to further turn to other service providers who will provide some kind of guarantee that their data will be protected. Besides, even if it were true that Gmail was the victim of a hack attack, things are likely going to get worse with Google fast becoming the next big target, a la Microsoft, for all kinds of hacker wannabees.

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