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In my opinion, Google is getting worse constantly, which boils down to basically the following aspects for me: 1. I don’t like the UI anymore. I preferred the
by cygned 7y ago
In my opinion, Google is getting worse constantly, which boils down to basically the following aspects for me:
1. I don’t like the UI anymore. I preferred the condensed view, with more information and less whitespace.
2. Popping up some kind of menu when you return from a search results page shifts down the rest of the items resulting in me clicking search links I am not interested in.
3. It tries to be smarter than me, which it fails in understanding what I am searching for. And by “understanding” I basically mean to honor what I typed and not replacing it with other words.
I try to use DDG more often but Google gives me the best results most of the time if I put in more time.
- mszcz 7y agoYeah, number 3 really pisses me off recently. If I type in 3 words I would like to search by those 3 words. What ends up happening is Google just decides that it's too much of a hassle or that I've made a mistake and just searches using 2. So now I have to input all the words in quotes so that it works like it supposed to in the first place. This functionallity literaly never helped me during search. Not once.
- reportgunner 7y ago"try" "putting" "the" "words" "in" "respective" "quotes" "like" "this"
- mszcz 7y agoThat's what I'm doing, sorry it wasn't clear ;)
- voldacar 7y agoAgreed on all three but especially #1. The "modern" web is full of so much whitespace it's infuriating
- berkut 7y agoYou don't even seem to be able to simply get the URL of a search result any more: some hierarchical token thing is used instead to display each search result's address, and copying any link just gives you: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=15&ved=2 https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c... with the url buried somewhere in the GET params.
- userbinator 7y agoEverything that you're looking for is (fortunately) still in the HTML source code. When Google started messing with the URLs I wrote a filter for my MITM proxy to put them back. Then it recently changed the format so I had to change the filter again. It's annoying for sure.