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This seems to be about a change where, if you search for "time toronto", it'll show you the time in Toronto in a mostly blank page and a button labeled "Show al

This seems to be about a change where, if you search for "time toronto", it'll show you the time in Toronto in a mostly blank page and a button labeled "Show all results". Very clicky-batey title.

matthewmacleod 9y ago
I'm not sure it is clickbait. Previously, typing things into Google would result in a list of webpages that matched the phrase you typed in, with various ambiguity around that to allow for flexibility. Now it doesn't do that, by default. Yeah, there's button to do it, so it's not like anybody can't access the results anymore. But certainly from the perspective of the first experience, this is a huge change. Assuming whatever A/B-style test is currently running is "successful", it would be reasonable to assume that this feature would be rolled out to other queries where Google assumes users want an answer to a specific question. That's something that could have a significant impact on the web generally, given Google's dominant position.
- gus_massa 9y ago
  They show whatever they want to show. For example see https://www.google.com/search?q=matemathica https://www.google.com/search?q=matemathica If you search for "matemathica" they will show the results of "mathematica" instead, and offer to search for the original word. Sometimes they mix the results of the original word and the autocorrected version. Sometimes they show the results of the original and offer to show the results of the autocorrection.
  - matthewmacleod 9y ago
    I know, and I did explicitly point out that there was ambiguity in there. But there’s a bit of a difference, I feel.
  - searchmartin 9y ago
    In your example they still show results, in mine, they do not.
darshanrampatel 9y ago
Where is this button? It's not shown in the screenshots in the article or on my mobile: https://s18.postimg.org/rjhqgav4p/wp_ss_20180315_0001.png https://s18.postimg.org/rjhqgav4p/wp_ss_20180315_0001.png
vardump 9y ago
Lately my google search results have been total garbage. Google confuses terms. Whenever searching for something rare, it just "autocorrects" the search term to something common. It often modifies product model numbers and gives results you didn't ask for. It helpfully drops search terms the user explicitly provides it. It doesn't even help to put + in front of the words, like some years ago. There's advanced search, but the results are only marginally better and it's horrible to use.
searchmartin 9y ago
Hands up... yes, it’s fully intended to get you to click through. (I wrote it) BUT: the underlying point is still valid, these are not sear results, that come from a search engine. These are answers, from an answer engine. (But still made you click ;) )

This seems to be about a change where, if you search for "time toronto", it'll show you the time in Toronto in a mostly blank page and a button labeled "Show all results". Very clicky-batey title.

matthewmacleod 9y ago

I'm not sure it is clickbait. Previously, typing things into Google would result in a list of webpages that matched the phrase you typed in, with various ambiguity around that to allow for flexibility. Now it doesn't do that, by default. Yeah, there's button to do it, so it's not like anybody can't access the results anymore. But certainly from the perspective of the first experience, this is a huge change. Assuming whatever A/B-style test is currently running is "successful", it would be reasonable to assume that this feature would be rolled out to other queries where Google assumes users want an answer to a specific question. That's something that could have a significant impact on the web generally, given Google's dominant position.

gus_massa 9y ago
They show whatever they want to show. For example see https://www.google.com/search?q=matemathica https://www.google.com/search?q=matemathica If you search for "matemathica" they will show the results of "mathematica" instead, and offer to search for the original word. Sometimes they mix the results of the original word and the autocorrected version. Sometimes they show the results of the original and offer to show the results of the autocorrection.
- matthewmacleod 9y ago
  I know, and I did explicitly point out that there was ambiguity in there. But there’s a bit of a difference, I feel.
- searchmartin 9y ago
  In your example they still show results, in mine, they do not.

darshanrampatel 9y ago

Where is this button? It's not shown in the screenshots in the article or on my mobile: https://s18.postimg.org/rjhqgav4p/wp_ss_20180315_0001.png https://s18.postimg.org/rjhqgav4p/wp_ss_20180315_0001.png

vardump 9y ago

Lately my google search results have been total garbage. Google confuses terms. Whenever searching for something rare, it just "autocorrects" the search term to something common. It often modifies product model numbers and gives results you didn't ask for. It helpfully drops search terms the user explicitly provides it. It doesn't even help to put + in front of the words, like some years ago. There's advanced search, but the results are only marginally better and it's horrible to use.

searchmartin 9y ago

Hands up... yes, it’s fully intended to get you to click through. (I wrote it) BUT: the underlying point is still valid, these are not sear results, that come from a search engine. These are answers, from an answer engine. (But still made you click ;) )