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For me, more than visual cruft (although I would argue there is more of that than before) - it's interaction cruft. Big annoyances for me: 1. Auto suggesting
by wgx 15y ago
For me, more than visual cruft (although I would argue there is more of that than before) - it's interaction cruft.
Big annoyances for me:
1. Auto suggesting and searching for words I didn't mean - common with technical phrases
2. Ignoring "quoted terms" and searching for them as an AND instead
3. Auto refreshing the results page as I modify my terms - it makes the experience slower, and I don't need to see results for half-typed words
There's probably more I can't bring to mind right now.
- joelhaus 15y agoYou can add a "+" before a quoted phrase to enforce a strict search, but share some of these same frustrations.
- ugh 15y agoGoogle does not ignore quoted terms. I for one love instant and suggestions.
- rhizome 15y agoGoogle does not ignore quoted terms. Many times it seems like it does, to the extent that I've even gone back and replaced double-quotes with singles in hopes that the parser distinguishes literals.
- ugh 15y agoWell, Google sensibly ignore quotes if it doesn’t find anything which is probably what happened to you. Would you rather Google to just display that it found nothing?
- troutwine 15y agoYes.
- anonymoushn 15y agoEven when it can find something, it will mix in non-matching results with your matching results.
- ellyagg 15y agoI can't scroll the page with the up/down arrows. It don't get why no one mentions this. Sometimes I'm afraid they're targeting just me. Is it really the right trade-off to steal the arrow key to scroll the results with a cursor? Who uses that feature? Leave my arrows alone.
- tikhonj 15y agoReally? I find being able to go through the results using the arrows very useful. When I'm doing a Google search, I want to get to a web site, optimally without using the mouse. Having this feature routinely saves me from having to use the mouse, which is particularly nice on a laptop. Having the arrow keys go directly to search results is very useful especially because it takes three or four times less presses to navigate that way than using tab. Besides, if I want to scroll, I can always use the space bar--it's faster anyhow.
- mirkules 15y agoIndeed. It is extremely annoying to have my arrow keys hijacked for no apparent reason. I know how to scroll a page and click on links, thank you very much. I tend to look through a page before scrolling, and use the arrows to scroll down and reveal more stuff.
- colanderman 15y agoBetter still, my browser has that feature (ctrl+arrows to navigate links instead of scrolling). This feature of Google's brings zero benefit to me.
- gjm11 15y agoYes yes yes yes yes. (I know me-too comments are generally frowned on, and quite right too, but we have a senior Googler reading this thread and comment scores are invisible now...)