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Google Zeitgeist 2013
- beaker52 13y agoEdward Snowden not in top 100. Goes to show my assumption that he would be says that I'm subject to a large degree of bias.
- k-mcgrady 13y agoIs the top 100 actually the top 100? I'm sure it's filtered quite a bit.
- ouggnay 13y agoEdward Snowden is #97.
- dec0dedab0de 13y agoWhile I read almost every HN post I saw about Snowden, I don't think I searched his name at all. In fact, I can't remember searching anything news related this year. I'm sure I have, but its really not necessary anymore. I wonder if others are starting to get into similar patterns.
- oneeyedpigeon 13y agoBreaks the back button :-(
- nettletea 13y agoIt's a hideous UI, all I want is a text list of top searches for the year, and to be able to filter by category. Stealing my touch scroll isn't that nice either. I struggled to read beyond the fold.
- nettletea 13y agoYou seriously mean to tell me that the most popular search on Google for 2013 is 'Paul Walker' followed by 'iPhone 5s'? What? Surely 'Weather' would be higher. I simply don't know what I'm looking at here.
- aroch 13y agoFairly sure they've filtered out what might constitute "low importance" searched like terms such as 'weather'. Searches for the weather probably remain relatively stable and don't really tell us anything.
- chaz 13y agoIt's actually "Top 100 [Trending] Searches." They could have been more clear about that. http://www.google.com/trends/topcharts?date=2013 http://www.google.com/trends/topcharts?date=2013
- boomzilla 13y agoYes, it's trending searches, not most popular ones. By the way, non-engineers/non-analytical people usually have trouble differentiating the two. I can't recall how many meetings with product/business people that I have to explain the concepts.
- chimeracoder 13y agoI imagine this is a variant of a Latent Dirichlet Allocation[0]. Informally, this will identify words "most associated" with 2013, which is not the same thing as the most searched words in 2013. Put another way, unless there's a huge spike of interest in the weather in 2013 compared to other years, "weather" won't be included. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latent_dirichlet_allocation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latent_dirichlet_allocation
- fvrghl 13y agoI also wondered why the death of Paul Walker was in the video. Surely Lou Reed was more influential, yet his death wasn't mentioned.
- franze 13y agowhat a horrible, horrible browsing experience on desktop. this is a complete new kind of swipeware/pseudo-metro crap...
- scrrr 13y agoyeah, it's very non-Google somehow..
- wavefunction 13y agoOr maybe the new Google. Or the same Google we always had.
- brokenparser 13y agoYou're saying it's a 0 or a 1?
- wavefunction 13y agoIt's definitely a 13 74/9ths
- Keyframe 13y agoWhat a shitty user experience. What changed at google? They used to have these rather simple, useful, UIs.
- agildehaus 13y agoDesigners and product managers have taken the reigns from the engineers. Recall that Google at one time never had TV advertisements. Now you can't turn the damn thing on without seeing one.
- devcpp 13y agoExactly. After all, it's pretty much how Apple made its historic unprecedented profits: more designers than engineers.
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- raldi 13y agoReally? What Google commercials have you seen recently?
- agildehaus 13y agoConstant Chrome/cast/book and Nexus tablet ads. I've seen this one far too much: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LysTmwDan8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LysTmwDan8
- wonderyak 13y agoAny designer that knows what they are doing makes things easier to use, not more difficult. I think it would be better to say 'Amateurs have taken the reigns'.
- josteink 13y agoI don't even know what I'm looking at here. It renders incorrectly, had zero info and just shows me pictures of Hollywood celebrities.
- martingordon 13y agoScrolling is backwards on my Mac. I'm using the default ("natural") scrolling, where swiping up scrolls down, but this page is set to scroll down with a swipe down. Probably has to do with the fact that they're rendering the images in a canvas element rather than plain old HTML. It's also broken on iPads. You can't see the bottom nav in portrait and the site is slightly too large for the viewport when viewed in landscape.
- CaveTech 13y agoI think it might be intentional. I don't use natural scrolling and it's broken for me as well.
- joecurry 13y agoI would prefer a .txt file list over this, I can't even tell the order without individual clicks.
- uncoder0 13y agohttp://www.google.com/trends/topcharts#date=2013 http://www.google.com/trends/topcharts#date=2013. Not a text file but, a much better format than the op. Edit: Apparently this is linked in the bottom left corner of the page... totally missed it. What an effective site design.
- Recoil42 13y agoAnd it still fucking breaks scroll.
- wavefunction 13y agoThat would make sense if this were something that was intended to be useful and meaningful. I think this is just supposed to remind you that Google is a thing.
- sgustard 13y agoThe actual data is so boring (hint: Miley Cyrus) that it's purely an exercise in wasteful over-engineering.
- mcgwiz 13y agoDid I miss something or is 2013 already over? Also, didn't find any mention of NSA or Snowden. Sadly, I wasn't surprised.
- eamsen 13y agoSnowden is #97 for me. I suspect that the results are localized (Germany for me).
- headgasket 13y agoThis UI reminds me of Encarta 98.
- hsivonen 13y agoRequires login? Why?
- aasarava 13y agoI wonder if most people didn't even notice that because they remain logged in to Google services all the time.
- gpmcadam 13y agoI think it's just a default Google thing. Basically, it notices you're logged in but you haven't entered your password for a while, so it prompts you to login again. Instead, I just clicked 'Log out and log in as a different user', closed the tab, and clicked the link again on HN, and it worked just fine. So in short, it doesn't require you to be logged in, unless you are, at which point you have to log in again. Bizarre.
- eamsen 13y agoGoogle Zeitgeist 2013: black box. The video doesn't load for me on Firefox. It is probably just a bug and will be fixed but it coincidentally prints the correct picture of Google's current stance on browser compatibility. Anyone else thinks that the silent conversion tactics are slowly becoming more obvious?
- yapcguy 13y agoConsider yourself fortunate you can't watch the video. It's exactly the kind of maudlin crap we have come to expect from politically correct tech companies.
- brokenparser 13y agoThe video appears to be an mp4 (the network monitor says so) and it should work fine (it does here). Please ensure you have the latest FF version, available from https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/ https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/ (in case the update fails).
- eamsen 13y agoI have Firefox 26.0 installed, it still fails on both Windows 7 and Ubuntu 13.10 (64 bit both).
- brokenparser 13y agoCan't help you with Windows, but I'm interested to see what happens under Ubuntu. It's on my todo list for tomorrow (by date, not by priority).
- brokenparser 13y agoIt appears to work just fine in FF26 under Ubuntu 3.10 without anything extra installed. Have you tried turning it off and on? Try a new profile (firefox -profileManager) or Restart with Add-ons Disabled (help menu), or perhaps it was just a fluke. Could not reproduce (relevant XKCD: http://xkcd.com/583/ http://xkcd.com/583/ ).
- jmedwards 13y agoThat wasn't a patch on the 2012 Zeitgeist that Google put together: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY_MUB8adEQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY_MUB8adEQ
- chacham15 13y agoThere must be something wrong with this list when Edward Snowden is at #97 and Paul Walker is #2. To make this more clear: Snowden was the top Google search for many days, perhaps as long as the incident of Paul Walkers death until now.
- xemoka 13y agoI'm usually quite impressed by Google's Zeitgeist videos, this one was disappointing however. It's short (a minute shorter than 2012 and 2011), doesn't include many of the important events of the year, and is rather uninspiring. What happened?
- aaronetz 13y agoChrome on Windows 7 bug report: back button doesn't work, mouse wheel doesn't work (scrolls at infinitesimal speed), touch-screen style controls which don't work well with a mouse (click&drag, besides not being intuitive with a mouse, is also broken because it navigates to the selected item on mouse button release)
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- VladRussian2 13y agonice. Black dead rectangle in the center of bluish background. No interaction anywhere. Firefox. If it doesn't work in FF, it doesn't work.
- stevenspasbo 13y agoAll I'm seeing is a blue screen. Macbook, using Chrome.
- CisSovereign 13y agoI'm on chrome and it was super clunky. Skipped a ton on scroll.
- hartator 13y ago"When you finally get at that's point of acceptance, there is nothing more beautiful" Showing a woman with a scarf... Come on google, just go already.
- fmax30 13y agoThe first few times i visited this , i was looking for a way to access more content then quit half way round. I tried scrolling down , it didn't work . I had to click a link on the left corner of my screen which wasn't even that visible to me. Affordance = 0.