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I think your absolutely right. The vast majority of UIs are okay and get the job done. I've rarely not ordered something because the UI was too bad. But, I

I think your absolutely right. The vast majority of UIs are okay and get the job done. I've rarely not ordered something because the UI was too bad. But, I have to admit, the author is right on one account. Alot of websites these days are lurching from one page to another, just to score more page views or something, rather than a Single page app. And, I hope goolge doesn't think their done with search. Google doesn't always do a great job of ranking the best products and sites at the top. Sometimes it's downright awful. On a number of occassions, I've had to click through each of the first 10 results and the next 10 and still not finding exactly what i want. And, I've found that if google can't find it in the top 20, it usually doesn't find it in the next 20 either. But, I'm sure it exists somewhere.

cheschire 9y ago
Relevant results for me have gotten a lot harder to find in the last several months. I believe this is since they switched over to neural networking instead of algorithms, but I’m not inside enough to know if this really happened. I get a lot of queries now where the first few results are missing at least one of my terms. I have to scroll before I find my first result that doesn’t say it’s missing a term. I don’t think google is done with their search, but I have a feeling they’re going through a major transition right now and a lot of the web is still designed for old SEO models.
- themodelplumber 9y ago
  You're right on. I've found it useful to typologize my searches to take advantage of specialty information portals. For example I use NIH for medical, MDN for webdev, specific subreddits or forums for other projects. This helps counterbalance the currently weakened global search (Google) outcomes.
arkh 9y ago
> Alot of websites these days are lurching from one page to another, just to score more page views or something, rather than a Single page app. All hail the Single Page app! Long live the Flash heir! I wish more websites were not using the "let's load ton of shit to make the client generate basic HTML" approach.
gkya 9y ago
Single page apps are buggy crap. No single SPA I had to put up with worked completely fine. They breaks the most fundamental parts of web browsing: history, bookmarks, URIs, etc. Yes they try to reimplement half of the browser, but that's always sub par at best, and sloooooooow. The only exception I've encountered was Google Maps.

cheschire 9y ago

Relevant results for me have gotten a lot harder to find in the last several months. I believe this is since they switched over to neural networking instead of algorithms, but I’m not inside enough to know if this really happened. I get a lot of queries now where the first few results are missing at least one of my terms. I have to scroll before I find my first result that doesn’t say it’s missing a term. I don’t think google is done with their search, but I have a feeling they’re going through a major transition right now and a lot of the web is still designed for old SEO models.

themodelplumber 9y ago
You're right on. I've found it useful to typologize my searches to take advantage of specialty information portals. For example I use NIH for medical, MDN for webdev, specific subreddits or forums for other projects. This helps counterbalance the currently weakened global search (Google) outcomes.

arkh 9y ago

> Alot of websites these days are lurching from one page to another, just to score more page views or something, rather than a Single page app. All hail the Single Page app! Long live the Flash heir! I wish more websites were not using the "let's load ton of shit to make the client generate basic HTML" approach.

gkya 9y ago

Single page apps are buggy crap. No single SPA I had to put up with worked completely fine. They breaks the most fundamental parts of web browsing: history, bookmarks, URIs, etc. Yes they try to reimplement half of the browser, but that's always sub par at best, and sloooooooow. The only exception I've encountered was Google Maps.