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Falls within the purview of their job of being an information-search tool I’d say. There are times when I want a specific piece of information as quickly as po

by pen2l 6y ago

Falls within the purview of their job of being an information-search tool I’d say. There are times when I want a specific piece of information as quickly as possible and with as few clicks as possible, and other times I’m doing more exploratory searches, it seems google lets me do both pretty well.

uniqueid 6y ago
Google doesn't bother showing the user results for his/her actual search terms anymore, and stuffs most of the page with AMP links and paid results... but it's not them, it's you. But if Google AI were really as bad at replacing simple grep they wouldn't be popular, etc etc.
- rightbyte 6y ago
  Ye. It is really annoying that verbatim querries still are not quite verbatim. I get a feeling Google search index is just really an aggregate of a couple of 1000s big sites.
tweetle_beetle 6y ago
I think the issue is that Google did not launch as an "information-search tool". It slowly transitioned into one in line with advertising becoming its business model. Weirdly we are back where we started and I find the portal analogy actually very apt. Yes the technology has improved, but the Google of today is much closer to 2000 Yahoo![1] than 2000 Google[2] - trying to curate and own as much of the internet browsing experience as possible. Taken to the extreme, Google would be very happy to keep a copy of every website and only let you browse the internet on its terms in its walled garden. We're already heading there with AMP. Do we want to sacrifice a couple of seconds of our time for that? [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20000229042533/http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=YANKEES https://web.archive.org/web/20000229042533/http://search.yah... [2] https://web.archive.org/web/20130122200020/http://www.google.com/search?q=yankees https://web.archive.org/web/20130122200020/http://www.google...

by pen2l 6y ago

uniqueid 6y ago

Google doesn't bother showing the user results for his/her actual search terms anymore, and stuffs most of the page with AMP links and paid results... but it's not them, it's you. But if Google AI were really as bad at replacing simple grep they wouldn't be popular, etc etc.

rightbyte 6y ago
Ye. It is really annoying that verbatim querries still are not quite verbatim. I get a feeling Google search index is just really an aggregate of a couple of 1000s big sites.

tweetle_beetle 6y ago

I think the issue is that Google did not launch as an "information-search tool". It slowly transitioned into one in line with advertising becoming its business model. Weirdly we are back where we started and I find the portal analogy actually very apt. Yes the technology has improved, but the Google of today is much closer to 2000 Yahoo![1] than 2000 Google[2] - trying to curate and own as much of the internet browsing experience as possible. Taken to the extreme, Google would be very happy to keep a copy of every website and only let you browse the internet on its terms in its walled garden. We're already heading there with AMP. Do we want to sacrifice a couple of seconds of our time for that? [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20000229042533/http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=YANKEES https://web.archive.org/web/20000229042533/http://search.yah... [2] https://web.archive.org/web/20130122200020/http://www.google.com/search?q=yankees https://web.archive.org/web/20130122200020/http://www.google...