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I'm typically a Google fanboy, but spot on. Here's a search for sushi for me: https://www.dropbox.com/s/q3epmld2ffqzg3f/Screen%20Shot%202013-07-01%20at%209.38.0

I'm typically a Google fanboy, but spot on. Here's a search for sushi for me: https://www.dropbox.com/s/q3epmld2ffqzg3f/Screen%20Shot%202013-07-01%20at%209.38.09%20AM.png https://www.dropbox.com/s/q3epmld2ffqzg3f/Screen%20Shot%2020... It's like full circle back to Yahoo. Maybe this is a result of listening to the data too much, and not depending on the greater vision enough. Or maybe it's the future and you're gonna love it.

zalew 13y ago
mine is even worse, because google apparently has trouble with me not being in the USA http://i.imgur.com/sQ5lue3.png http://i.imgur.com/sQ5lue3.png
- hnriot 13y ago
  What did you expect it to show you? It seems like a decent result to me. Possibly google doesn't know any sushi restaurants near you in Warsaw.
  - zalew 13y ago
    pointless zip-code form.
    - bdegman 13y ago
      It's not pointless if you are looking for a place to eat sushi. You're performing a hypothetical search for something that you aren't actually looking for and then calling the results pointless.
      - Wilya 13y ago
        Google can pinpoint your location very accurately, and they are usually quite agressive in promoting local results (including for tech queries, which is a pretty bad idea), yet they ask people in Poland: "In which US city are you ?". I find that quite funny, to be honest.
        vacri 13y ago
        In Australia get the same search results as you, but there's no 'local search' section. I'm logged into google in FF In chrome, with no login, I get a different set of results, including some local restaurants. Curious.
sanderjd 13y ago
Maybe I'm the weirdo, but I think that's an extremely useful results page. What are you looking for when you search for "sushi" besides (more likely) nearby sushi restaurants or (less likely) information about what sushi is. The screen real estate seems to reflect those two possibilities in what seems to me to be a sensible proportion.
- devindotcom 13y ago
  Then we're both weirdos. These results (both OP and child thread's) look extremely helpful, both to someone looking to eat some sushi nearby or wondering what sushi is exactly. Local places, definitions, pictures, how-to videos, all kinds of stuff someone searching for "sushi" might want. I really don't understand the complaint. Is it that Google no longer returns a page of text links indexed solely by pagerank?
- andrewljohnson 13y ago
  It used to be, when you clicked a link on Google, you left Google to go elsewhere. Now, you search for something like sushi, then go to Google Maps, then see the phone number, then call. I'm not _necessarily_ saying this is bad or unwanted, but it's a vast philosophical and product shift for Google. And it has implications for the trustworthiness and long-term usefulness of Google. I do not welcome a future where Google invalidates the business models of businesses like Yelp by delivering their content in such a way that makes going to Yelp unnecessary. I don't want all of my websites to be subsumed by a corporate behemoth, so I get short term better products, but long term stifled innovation.
  - jonknee 13y ago
    Or you can go to the restaurant's website through the link either on the SERP or Maps page... 8/10 though I don't want to see what Wordpress template a restaurant is using this week, I just want to know if it's open, what other people think about it and how to get there. I find this SERP to be vastly more useful than how it used to be. Restaurant owners should too, I no longer will skip visiting your place because your website sucks or is not mobile friendly.

zalew 13y ago

mine is even worse, because google apparently has trouble with me not being in the USA http://i.imgur.com/sQ5lue3.png http://i.imgur.com/sQ5lue3.png

hnriot 13y ago
What did you expect it to show you? It seems like a decent result to me. Possibly google doesn't know any sushi restaurants near you in Warsaw.
- zalew 13y ago
  pointless zip-code form.
  - bdegman 13y ago
    It's not pointless if you are looking for a place to eat sushi. You're performing a hypothetical search for something that you aren't actually looking for and then calling the results pointless.
    - Wilya 13y ago
      Google can pinpoint your location very accurately, and they are usually quite agressive in promoting local results (including for tech queries, which is a pretty bad idea), yet they ask people in Poland: "In which US city are you ?". I find that quite funny, to be honest.
      - vacri 13y ago
        In Australia get the same search results as you, but there's no 'local search' section. I'm logged into google in FF In chrome, with no login, I get a different set of results, including some local restaurants. Curious.

sanderjd 13y ago

Maybe I'm the weirdo, but I think that's an extremely useful results page. What are you looking for when you search for "sushi" besides (more likely) nearby sushi restaurants or (less likely) information about what sushi is. The screen real estate seems to reflect those two possibilities in what seems to me to be a sensible proportion.

devindotcom 13y ago
Then we're both weirdos. These results (both OP and child thread's) look extremely helpful, both to someone looking to eat some sushi nearby or wondering what sushi is exactly. Local places, definitions, pictures, how-to videos, all kinds of stuff someone searching for "sushi" might want. I really don't understand the complaint. Is it that Google no longer returns a page of text links indexed solely by pagerank?
andrewljohnson 13y ago
It used to be, when you clicked a link on Google, you left Google to go elsewhere. Now, you search for something like sushi, then go to Google Maps, then see the phone number, then call. I'm not _necessarily_ saying this is bad or unwanted, but it's a vast philosophical and product shift for Google. And it has implications for the trustworthiness and long-term usefulness of Google. I do not welcome a future where Google invalidates the business models of businesses like Yelp by delivering their content in such a way that makes going to Yelp unnecessary. I don't want all of my websites to be subsumed by a corporate behemoth, so I get short term better products, but long term stifled innovation.
- jonknee 13y ago
  Or you can go to the restaurant's website through the link either on the SERP or Maps page... 8/10 though I don't want to see what Wordpress template a restaurant is using this week, I just want to know if it's open, what other people think about it and how to get there. I find this SERP to be vastly more useful than how it used to be. Restaurant owners should too, I no longer will skip visiting your place because your website sucks or is not mobile friendly.