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I'm pretty disappointed with Google's search these days. 99% of the time I just want plain old text search results. No pictures, videos, maps, javascript previe

by naner 16y ago

I'm pretty disappointed with Google's search these days. 99% of the time I just want plain old text search results. No pictures, videos, maps, javascript previews, etc. Just the text.

JSig 16y ago
It would be cool if there was a lynx like browser extension.
- Groxx 16y ago
  Depending on your browser, there kinda is: disable CSS, javascript, images, and plugins. :) (though it seems Chrome doesn't have this anywhere that's simple to do...)
Groxx 16y ago
Tried http://www.goosh.org/ http://www.goosh.org/ ? If you really just want text results, with no shinies (shineys? shinys?), there's gotta be something out there that does this. If not, maybe a browser extension is in order? It'd have an easier time cleaning stuff up. I could add it to my ever-lengthening todo list...
magicalist 16y ago
http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2010/06/introducing-google-command-line-tool.html http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2010/06/introducing-go...
danilocampos 16y ago
Don't forget their awful, automatic broadmatching for organic results. Today I was searching for "(vendor name) promo code" And back came results about programming. Because code, when not a noun, is a verb for "to program." It's just awful. Sometimes getting no results is more useful than getting broader results that I need to parse just to establish I'm not going to find what I'm searching for.
- magicalist 16y ago
  well I'm not going to call you wrong, because I don't know the vendor you were searching for, but in trying several different vendors it seems that google is automatically looking for both "promo" and "promotion", and it's hard to tell, but maybe "coupon" as well. in any case, it's clear google doesn't think I'm looking for source code.
- ryanwanger 16y ago
  If you let google personalize your results, then this probably happened because "code" usually means programming...for you.
p_nathan 16y ago
I'm fond of duckduckgo. The author is a HN member to boot.
thirdsun 16y ago
I recently started using duckduckgo.com and i'm extremely impressed with the results - clean design, no seo spam from content farms, even useful for german queries. Overall i may get less results (just assuming, if true i didn't notice), but they are definitely the significant and important ones.
mike-cardwell 16y ago
Sounds like you want to use https://ssl.scroogle.org/ https://ssl.scroogle.org/
RexRollman 16y ago
Agreed. Google has fucked away simplicity.

by naner 16y ago

I'm pretty disappointed with Google's search these days. 99% of the time I just want plain old text search results. No pictures, videos, maps, javascript previews, etc. Just the text.

JSig 16y ago

It would be cool if there was a lynx like browser extension.

Groxx 16y ago
Depending on your browser, there kinda is: disable CSS, javascript, images, and plugins. :) (though it seems Chrome doesn't have this anywhere that's simple to do...)

Groxx 16y ago

Tried http://www.goosh.org/ http://www.goosh.org/ ? If you really just want text results, with no shinies (shineys? shinys?), there's gotta be something out there that does this. If not, maybe a browser extension is in order? It'd have an easier time cleaning stuff up. I could add it to my ever-lengthening todo list...

magicalist 16y ago

http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2010/06/introducing-google-command-line-tool.html http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2010/06/introducing-go...

danilocampos 16y ago

Don't forget their awful, automatic broadmatching for organic results. Today I was searching for "(vendor name) promo code" And back came results about programming. Because code, when not a noun, is a verb for "to program." It's just awful. Sometimes getting no results is more useful than getting broader results that I need to parse just to establish I'm not going to find what I'm searching for.

magicalist 16y ago
well I'm not going to call you wrong, because I don't know the vendor you were searching for, but in trying several different vendors it seems that google is automatically looking for both "promo" and "promotion", and it's hard to tell, but maybe "coupon" as well. in any case, it's clear google doesn't think I'm looking for source code.
ryanwanger 16y ago
If you let google personalize your results, then this probably happened because "code" usually means programming...for you.

p_nathan 16y ago

I'm fond of duckduckgo. The author is a HN member to boot.

thirdsun 16y ago

I recently started using duckduckgo.com and i'm extremely impressed with the results - clean design, no seo spam from content farms, even useful for german queries. Overall i may get less results (just assuming, if true i didn't notice), but they are definitely the significant and important ones.

mike-cardwell 16y ago

Sounds like you want to use https://ssl.scroogle.org/ https://ssl.scroogle.org/

RexRollman 16y ago

Agreed. Google has fucked away simplicity.