{"id":828,"date":"2008-07-04T08:54:25","date_gmt":"2008-07-04T15:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/04\/gmails-black-dot\/"},"modified":"2008-07-04T08:54:25","modified_gmt":"2008-07-04T15:54:25","slug":"gmails-black-dot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/gmails-black-dot\/","title":{"rendered":"Gmail&#8217;s Black Dot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/gubatron\/2636812888\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3095\/2636812888_65e9cbfc43_m.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/gubatron\/2636812888\/\">Gmail&#8217;s Black Dot<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nOriginally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/gubatron\/\">Gubatron<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On Both Firefox 3 and Safari, on 2 different GMail accounts I see a black\/grayish dot on the top left corner.<\/p>\n<p>Google only indexes Google groups talking about the subject as of today July 4th 2008<\/p>\n<p>Do you get one too?<\/p>\n<p>Please leave comments if you find out what this is about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gmail&#8217;s Black Dot Originally uploaded by Gubatron. 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