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Google, in tiny incremental steps, are slowly destroying what I loved about their search engine when I first started using it. So sad.
by RexRollman 15y ago
Google, in tiny incremental steps, are slowly destroying what I loved about their search engine when I first started using it. So sad.
- stock_toaster 15y agoFor me they are not just slowly killing their search, but they are incrementally distancing me from nearly all of their offerings. They are moving in an aesthetic direction that I feel is both less usable and that I find I enjoy using less. This has resulted in an increased 'friction' for me, and thus I have been putting more effort into searching and trying alternatives for various google services. I used to think of Google like my own personal librarian for the internet. Now less so. It brings to mind the old adages about being your own worst enemy/competition. For me, Google is certainly losing out to my memory of an older version of itself. Perhaps I am no longer in their target demographic. Maybe I have just hit some age threshold where certain things about myself have changed and my own perceptions of what I want have shifted subtly as well. I imagine Google has been doing quite well for itself, and would continue to do so even without me as a user. ;)
- hessenwolf 15y agoI feel like they are trying to shove me haphazardly into a web OS, with all of the links to the various services, when the technology is not ready enough, and I don't want one anyway. They are just managing instead to annoy me with their new graphics interface, but maybe I am also not the target market.
- kaybe 15y agoWhat are you using for search? I have yet to find a viable alternative; that or my search-fu ist just google-fu and I have to adapt better.
- stock_toaster 15y agoI have been using duckduckgo, but I do admit that when the results are not what I am looking for, I try the "!g" to get google results. I find myself doing that most often for extremely vague searches, or highly technical ones. More recently the google results have not been much better than the duckduckgo ones, without having to resort to quoting everything or further changing the search terms.
- kaybe 15y agoThanks, I'll try that.
- jxi 15y agoI'm usually a defender of how Google does things, but yea adding this indirection URL is something that has bothered me for quite some time. To me, it's just really sloppy code to be tracking things like this.