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The piece of shifting layout that annoys me the most in Google search results is the “People also search for” widget. It appears if you visit a search result an
by roryokane 6y ago
The piece of shifting layout that annoys me the most in Google search results is the “People also search for” widget. It appears if you visit a search result and then hit the Back button. I usually want to click the search result below the one I just visited, but by the time I’ve moved the mouse to that search result, the Google search page has inserted the “People also search for” widget in its place.
Google Search’s addition of that dynamically-appearing widget two years ago was the primary reason I switched to DuckDuckGo.
- jiggawatts 6y agoSome guy at Google is patting himself on the back for a Job Well Done because the customer engagement metrics are much higher than anticipated.
- GoblinSlayer 6y agoSelling clicks is literally their business.
- jiggawatts 6y agoThey sell deliberate clicks, but measure all clicks, including accidental.
- wingworks 6y agoI've added a filter to ublock which blocks it from happening, it's amazing. I use `www.google.*##div[jscontroller]:if(h4:has-text(People also search for))`
- soulofmischief 6y agoMaybe we should start a petition? Because I am about to do the same. The least they can do is push it to a second column on desktop and to the bottom on mobile.
- roryokane 6y agoSee also this comment thread about the same issue: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24914766 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24914766
- sgerenser 6y agoI’ve literally never seen this. Just tried to make it happen on my iPad with a few random searches and couldn’t. Maybe my adblocker (AdGuard set to block “annoyances”) has saved me this pain without even realizing it.
- soulofmischief 6y agoHappens to me with an adblocker. Are you disabling JS?
- sgerenser 6y agoNever mind, I am getting the “people also searched for” box for some queries. But it appears to load immediately, I don’t see anything load then move later.
- account42 6y agoHuh I never notice that one but then I always use middle click to open results in a new tab if there is a chance that I want to look at more than one.