Something that's bothered me for a bit. I have several deleted vids in my favourites section. Youtube shows them as deleted with the greyed out icon, but in the playlist edit or video manager section they disappear. I can't seem to find the way to delete them from the list.

the new interface which I refered to as beta, basically when set uploads only for subscriptions kept showing what they subscribed to , set favourites etc. instead of just showing new videos posted by who you subscribing to, a complete mess, so not surprised you have found issues also.

The older interface not perfect either, eg. have to change from highlights to everything on every time load the browser and site again but at least it only shows uploads instead of all other activity.

I wish Google would revert back ...or at least give an option.
There's 27 pages of protests on the Google forum, but Google don't seem to have much to say!

I changed my home page on IE to Yahoo - it's only 1 click for UK only, but still getting used to it for results. If the search results aren't brilliant, I do use Google, but with reluctance.

I think they the worst of all major internet companies in listening to feedback, all their products shout an attitude of we know best and stifle customisation.

The google search page is a crazy design, it uses about half the width of the page and then has a more pull down menu instead of using the full width so not need the pull down menu.

I recently had a website go live. It took about a week for said site to appear on the first page of Google hits when searching for the site name (it shares said name with another domain suffix). After that it's second on the first page.

Bing...several hours after...top hit.

Google proponents would probably say Bing isn't all that good on that basis. I say the advertiser that gets you top of the shop is best. Perhaps that's the difference between the search engine purists and the sales gurus, or the difference between the productive users and the less technical, non-productive users. Google is aligning itself for a particular market, due to the rise in mobile devices (and I suppose the future of 3G and 4G).

In that sense, Google is fast becoming a non-techies medium (or a less-techies one?). The point is to search and generate revenue, not to provide content providers with free access to free tools etc. I can see that if I step back. However, we still come back to the point:

What happens when the content providers can't use Google without a massive reduction in productivity?

They will go elsewhere. If Google had any sense, it would have a 'providers' interface, with customisation, adsense, analytics, adwords and all the other Google gizmos. Oh, and the easiest of search functions.