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I hired a freelancer from the Philippines on Upwork to work with me on some Google App Engine issues because Google's documentation is incredibly unhelpful at times and as well as bizarrely organized.

He was from the Philippines, and it turned out he was a contractor providing "support" for Google Cloud. So I guess Google is outsourcing their support? Isn't this something Dell tried to do in the 90's with disastrous results?



Regarding your first issue - I'm sorry to hear you had documentation issues.

There should be a huge "Send Feedback" widget at the bottom of every single documentation page:

http://i.imgur.com/MhWbY0W.png

http://i.imgur.com/Gu8GzLB.png (If you click it, it will pop up this modal form, which also allows you to just screenshot the offending part).

Did you try using this link on any of the pages that you found unhelpful, or bizarrely organised?

I'd encourage you to use this - as all of this feedback comes through to us via an internal system, and it does get reviewed (although I'm sure you can imagine the volume).

Otherwise feel free to reach out to me if you have specific concerns and feel more comfortable doing it that way, or you're unsure about the response you received. (Although quite frankly, I think the form is best, as that gets tracked, and anybody can jump on it).


Actually a PM I reached out to a couple of months ago did get back to me. I was disappointed at first because I heard nothing from Google Next could be uploaded online.

But Google did come through and they posted the images here: https://cloud.google.com/storage-options/

That had been my complaint...that the documentation was hard to get and that when I saw the images presented at Next I understood things that I had previously given up on.


(am an eng at google)

How else do you provide 24/7 support?




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