The Googleverse is not exactly like the universe most of us know. Things seem to move a little bit slower than everywhere else. In fact, one minute in the Googleverse is at least six hundred and nine seconds long. And here's the proof:
A little more than seven months ago, Google launched Google+ for Google Apps. I was thrilled, finally I could start using Google+ with my primary Google account. If that wasn't enough, they even announced a migration tool for people like me that started using G+ with their "personal" Google account, but wanted to transfer their data and connections to their new account. The joy!
The only catch was that it would only be ready in a few weeks, but that seemed fair enough. It wouldn't have benefited anyone if they delayed the G+ for Apps launch while they built the migration tool.
Two or three weeks went by before I checked back to see if it had arrived yet. Nope. Two more weeks went by and still nothing. I didn't want to use the new account actively yet in case it would interfere with the migration, so I was starting to get a little bit impatient. But how many weeks makes "a few"? It's not a definite number, but at least in my mind it shouldn't be much more than three.
Well, the first hit on Google seems to agree with me.
I continued to check back a few times a month until January or February. Still no migration tool.
For most of the spring I forgot about it, but yesterday I decided to check again. At this point it has been more than seven months since Google said "a few weeks", so surely it should have arrived. Nope, sorry.
That's it, I officially give up. If you we define "a few" as three, it has now taken google more than 10 times the time they said it would take to create the migration tool.
Let's do some quick math, using Google:
In other words, one minutes in the Googleverse equals at least 609 seconds for everyone else:
But who am I to criticize Google? I'm not even a paying customer, using the free version of Google Apps. Not paying in dollars that is. But over the years I've been paying in tons of WoM, and I'm sure I'm one of their top 1% fans.
If Google figured out that building the migration tool was no longer a priority, that would have been fine. However, leaving their biggest fans in the dark for this long is not a good strategy. They should at least have responded to the many cries for the feature in the comment section of the original blog post.
If anyone at Google ever reads this, I still love you guys, but you should have handled this one better.