Comments on: 7 reasons Google Contacts sucks

By: Wade

Wade — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 05:54:46 +0000

I agree, Google Contacts is terrible. Google, do something you big, do-no-evil lug!

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 16:55:14 +0000

Anyone else noted with utter mind-boggling incomprehension the way Gmail +/ Picasa auto pick a nickname out of the first part of the contacts name, not bothering to realise that if the contact has a prefix this does not make a good nickname.

I have about 20 contacts all with the same nickname of ‘Dr’.
But I guess that this either is the way is really should be or else is a real tricky problem to solve.

By: Karen

Karen — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 14:21:20 +0000

My problem right now with Google Contacts is loading & responding. It just sits there!!! Freezes up!! Then, it will act like it is working & you start typing and nothing!! Everything on my computer works just fine and with the expected speed – but, not my contacts. This is driving me crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’ve researched, re-booted, etc. with no luck.

Any suggestions? If not, another contact database that will sync up with my iphone?

Thank you in advance for your time.

By: Jeff Brotherston

Jeff Brotherston — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 21:04:14 +0000

Yes Google contacts sucks and I really wish it was better because sync to Outlook sucks even worse. At least with Outlook I can view by company, not by first name. Doing that with 6000 plus contacts is futility. For all of the things Google does well, contacts has to be at the very bottom. With all the buzz about social networking, why isn’t contact more important? Why would I pay for the enterprise version if the entry level version is lame?

By: Cruiser

Cruiser — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 11:17:50 +0000

Sage… Makes the ACT contact software… has a mobile service (120.00/yr upfront) which has to be better than this lame attempt by Google.

I haven’t tried it but it HAS to be better than Google Garbage.

By: Stuff I couldn’t do without in 2011

Stuff I couldn’t do without in 2011 — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 23:58:11 +0000

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By: Bien remplir les prénom, second prénom, nom… dans Google Contacts » Être adminsys

Wed, 19 Jan 2011 13:05:11 +0000

[...] 7 reasons Google Contacts sucks, la première raison énoncée est qu’il n’y a pas de champ prénom, nom du milieu, [...]

By: David Latapie

David Latapie — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 12:48:25 +0000

Point number 1 is a non-issue, but I admit it is not intuitive (or too much intuitive, YMMV).

See, if you click on the “name” field, you’ll notice a small icon on the right. Click it and you’ll get the first name/family name/middle name/salutation… thing. And usually, they are filled the correct way (Google assumes a space is a separation between a first and family name and that if there are three “block”, then the second one is a middle name)

Your other point, either are valid or I did not check. In any case, you are right: Google contacts sucks !

By: JT

JT — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 03:50:54 +0000

My problem with Android is that Google Contacts uses a single field for a contact’s mailing address and Android has separate fields for Street, City, State, and Zip. So sync puts everything into the Street field. WTF?

Also, there’s no way to send a contact’s info to another person, like a vcard in Outlook, for example. PITA!