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Removing a feature that fixes a major shortcoming of your product (spam sites) and directing your customers to use an extension to fix it is awful. What faith
by ebbv 14y ago
Removing a feature that fixes a major shortcoming of your product (spam sites) and directing your customers to use an extension to fix it is awful.
What faith I once had in Google being a company that puts users first is long gone.
- skylan_q 14y agoGoogle has been shutting down features left, right and centre. I'm left wondering: what useful thing has google done since gmail and ads?
- esbwhat 14y agowell, android
- olalonde 14y agoSelf driving cars? Android?
- Snowda 14y agoI do love my self driving car
- olalonde 14y agoWhat's your point? It's not useful because you don't have one?
- pyre 14y ago"I don't use Golang, so it doesn't count as a useful innovation!" ;-)
- Snowda 14y agoIt's not useful because nobody has one. Google have yet to "do" it. Their self driving car is as useful to anyone reading this as human teleportation right now. They're great idea's but until they are accessible in some form to the public, it is still just an idea that needs work not an innovation. I look forward to the day I can say I do have one though.
- icebraining 14y agoFrom the top of my head: V8, Golang, AngularJS, Closure Tools, Search by Image¹, Maps + Street View, Android, Now, Goggles, Fiber², Public DNS, GWT. ¹ not original, but works better than Tineye, in my opinion ² granted, only for a limited number of people
- jacquesm 14y agoWhat have the Romans ever done for us?
- jrockway 14y agoOne could argue that making users manually select "spam sites" is unfriendly, too. If I were the PM for Google Search, I'd want to make a product that "just worked" without requiring the user to screw around with bells and whistles. A work of art is done when there's nothing left to remove, not when there's nothing more to add. Providing an extension for power users to tweak the bells and whistles sounds like a fine gap-filler while perfection is achieved, however.