How exactly does this relate to Google? Well, I believe they've dangerously approached this state. While there services are mostly stable (thanks to great backend architecture) functionality set is quite surprising, lacking at times and inconsistent. Let me give you just a few example that speak for themselves.

Google Calendar while being a great tool can't really replace Outlook or even iCal without such a basic feature as... tasks. For God sake, what kind of a PIM it is without tasks! Instead of adding them in the calendar what do we see? Tasks in GMail. You might disagree, but I don't think they belong in there.

Google Talk is another example. They started of by providing a standalone client and a web interface. Then a flash based client was added. The desktop version looks quite dead now (yeas there is a beta but its more or less same as flash). There doesn't seem any sign of it being ported to any other platforms so its great voice functionality is lost in vane.

I am not gonna keep rumbling much longer but will just mention that Google recently announced that they won't develop Notebook any further.

Overall, I believe Google should stop for a second and have a careful look at the pile of there creations. And start creating a true integrated service out of them. Feature-complete (at least up to the point expected by most users) and consistent!

Unfortunately so far I don't see such tendency, instead they add new experimental and sometime dead-born services like Knol.

Enough negative emotions. I still believe that Google is a fantastic enterprise which does amazing things. They just need to get a bit more mature.

When my CNAME on DNS panel was ready and I payed my 10 bucks I realized that there is no actual custom domain! There is just a silly redirect to .wordpress.com url! Sorry guys, that that is NOT what I wanted. I want people to bookmark MY domain so I have the freedom to move the blog anywhere I want in the future.

Then I started fixing some of the old imported posts. In the beginning I thought that embedded flash went a bit funny. After some googling though I figured out that I cannot put custom flash inside my posts! I can put youtube videos, music and some other silly 3rd party service. I went nuts at this point.

There were a few minor problems like limited choice of skins (come on, wordpress has way more than that!) and flood of spam comment not of all which was caught to antispam. And I couldn't upload custom files, only images.

So my advice is: if you feel that you need the power of WordPress get your self a hosting account. Otherwise stick to a free blogging service like blogspot which btw is getting better and better every time I login!