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Google search on mobile is so bad now I am increasingly reluctant to bother searching for things rather than just going straight to Wikipedia or somewhere else
by joe5150 3y ago
Google search on mobile is so bad now I am increasingly reluctant to bother searching for things rather than just going straight to Wikipedia or somewhere else to find information. 80% of the page is "knowledge graph" junk, trending junk, boxes with "short videos" and "visual stories", and now if you scroll to the bottom and miss the button for "more search results", they just start showing you results for completely different searches!
Also very pissed off about their decision to replace the search categories (images, videos, news, etc) with yet more "smart" suggestions. It makes it completely unpredictable where I need to click to get to images, which is what I'm looking for 99% of the time. E.g. searching "radiohead" now shows buttons for "songs", "members", "albums", "videos", "merchandise", and finally--after scrolling the list to the side--"images". Terrible!
- gumballindie 3y agoJust the other day I did a search for “filename” (filename was not the actual input string) in my google drive and it found no results. I did a search for “tar.gz” the extension the file i searched, and guess what? It was found. I dont know what they are doing but this doesnt sound like a tech issue - it worked fine in the past. Now everything seems to have gotten broken. Google is sleepwalking into an altavista scenario. We need an alternative asap.