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I don't see the problem with building new products, Google was just search in the beginning. The problem arises when you screw your original product by tacking
by anuila 6y ago
I don't see the problem with building new products, Google was just search in the beginning. The problem arises when you screw your original product by tacking everything else onto it.
What if Google turned into Yahoo.com?
Google’s core product is still essentially unchanged since its inception, for the most part, except for ads.
- jasonmp85 6y agoUh that’s a REALLY bad example, given how much Google indeed HAS tacked everything else onto their core product. How many ads do you have to scroll past for the first real result? Are you certain the results are good, or are they skewed by some weirdness in your login, since they track all your searches now, to “personalize” (target) results (ads)? Google’s core product was a text box into which you could type anything and get something useful in the first few results. That product no longer exists.
- anuila 6y agoIt still exists for me. There’s no comparable search engine at the moment, it’s still the best at what it does and the format hasn’t changed (except for ads, as I mentioned) It’s still the same old list of links that has been enhanced to highlight the first result or the most recent news. Over 20 years that’s merely evolution. Dropbox turned from invisible into its own app separate from the OS. Don’t you see how, comparatively, Google Search hasn’t changed?
- JaggerJo 6y agogive duckduckgo a shot for say one week. I just don’t trust the results google returns. Sometimes I still !g something but rarely get a better matching result.
- anuila 6y agoI did and it's never good enough for me. I just re-did my last non-trivial search on ddg and none of the first page results were useful.
- tibbydudeza 6y agoYep like Google Plus and Google Video.