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From your mouth to Marissa Meyer's ears. My ultimate Google fantasy: An account setting called "2008 mode." No instant search. No fancy, annoying endless scr
by danilocampos 16y ago
From your mouth to Marissa Meyer's ears.
My ultimate Google fantasy: An account setting called "2008 mode."
No instant search.
No fancy, annoying endless scroll Google image search.
No word clustering/auto-substitution.
It would be awesome.
- yellowbkpk 16y agoI wonder if part of Google's speed increases involve dropping some of the more complex keywords while creating the index so that the search space is smaller.
- jacquesm 16y agoNot that I can detect. For instance: หาเมนบอร์ดช๊อคเกต775 returns 42k results, and is not exactly a common combination of words on google.com. Extra points if you know what it stands for :)
- sans-serif 16y agoHere to claim my extra points. Btw, tried searching for Gmail messages in Thai before? It doesn't work.
- jacquesm 16y agoSuch a claim would need to be accompanied by proof ;)
- btilly 16y agoGoogle Translate claims, "Find Motherboard Shock gate 775." I don't know what that is supposed to be a reference to.
- jacquesm 16y agoClose enough 'shock gate' is funny, phonetically very close to 'socket' right?
- saulhoward 16y ago> หาเมนบอร์ดช๊อคเกต775 'Haa men bord chok ket 775' = 'Find motherboard socket 775.' I would have thought that 'socket' would be a direct English transliteration, and use ซ (s) not ช (ch) though. Are you in Thailand, Jacques? Also, what makes you think this is such an uncommon phrase? It may not rival English, but there are plenty of Thai speakers out there, in many countries.
- jacquesm 16y ago> Are you in Thailand, Jacques? I wish. On google.com it would be an uncommon phrase. On the Thai version of google not so much I guess.
- didip 16y agoInteresting, 1 thing to add on that hypothesis, right around April 2010, Google dropped a lot of pages from its index. That really messed up SEO play companies. As a proof, search on any seo play company on Alexa around April 2010
- jacquesm 16y agoYes, please. The image search has been a pet peeve of mine, especially because of the way the results are provided to the end users. It seems they do everything they can to stop people from visiting actual websites through the image search. Instant search was fun for about 30 seconds. Then it's back to work and then it is rather annoying. At least you can disable it (just to the right of the search bar there is a little settings menu). The word clustering and auto-substitution are a real pain in the ass, especially when it keeps coming up with stuff that just isn't right but is more popular. I really can't stand that. I find myself using quoted queries far more frequently than in the past. 2008 sounds just about right, they can market it as 'google classic' for all I care.
- petercooper 16y ago2008 sounds just about right, they can market it as 'google classic' for all I care. It makes me wonder if, perhaps, Google2010 is just Google's New Coke ;-)
- JeffL 16y agoI can't think of one time in the 100's of times I've used image search that I cared at all about the actual web sites that the images are from. I wish it was even more direct, right to the images, than it still is, with a small link to the site if I'm interested.
- bambax 16y agoYES! At the very least, please give us an "allintext:" that actually works: absolutely no stemming whatsoever no "words were found in links pointing to this page" (this is the most infuriating thing ever) and... no "you're a bot" crazyness (or captchas that normal people can solve...)
- danilocampos 16y agoDon't even get me started with Google's captchas. They're unreadable even for humans.
- newman314 16y agoThat would indeed be awesome. Google Image Search also breaks horribly with FF and Ghostery installed. Google Instant still does horribly at my favorite test search word: Cardinal Do they know if I'm looking for a) the bird b) the team c) guy with the funny hat ? A: No.
- xentronium 16y agoYou could as well be searching for: d) A term from the Set theory e) Integer type Too much ambiguity.
- BrandonM 16y agoToo much ambiguity? http://lmddgtfy.com/?q=cardinal http://lmddgtfy.com/?q=cardinal
- logicalmind 16y agoFor regular search, their SSL search page https://www.google.com/ https://www.google.com/ is very close to "2008 mode". No luck on the image search part though.
- MaysonL 16y agoFor some reason, this is the page I get whwn I type google.com into the address bar in Safari (Webkit nightly). And I have yet to see Google Instant.