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Literally everything Google has done/changed in the last 5? years has been terrible. It's actually fairly amazing how many mistakes they are making. Search? Mo
by RyanZAG 13y ago
Literally everything Google has done/changed in the last 5? years has been terrible. It's actually fairly amazing how many mistakes they are making.
Search? More adverts, non-PC results lowered in priority, 'piracy' results lowered, etc.
Gmail? Luckily hasn't changed much so it's still pretty great, but the stuff they have changed is bad: eg, advert tabs.
Google Reader? Dead.
Google Talk? Dead, replaced with terrible Hangouts.
Google+. Don't need to comment here.
Android? Less and less open with more functionality moving into 'cloud services' to try and lock out competition/forking.
Google Glass? Nice idea but not practical because the implementation is still bad.
I'm sure there are more mistakes I'm forgetting. Anybody know of anything Google has actually done right in the last 5 years? Maybe Google Fibre if you're part of the 0.0000001% of the world who can get it.
- RestlessMind 13y agoChrome - getting better and better (and more importantly, pushing competitors to improve - like IE10 vd IE6) Search - knowledge graph and answer cards Android - Google Now and voice interface Hangouts - the original product, for video chats
- mark_l_watson 13y ago+1 sure I am pissed at the cancellation of Wave and irritated a bit by the cancelation of Reader, but you accurately list what I agree are their successes. I worked briefly with Knowledge Graph while consulting at Google last year, and in future forms I think KG is going to eat the world - great technology. I also like Google Now and expect it to keep getting better.
- aeturnum 13y agoI've had a roundly "meh" experience with Google Now. Most of the information it shows me isn't relevant to me and anything that is relevant is information I already knew (I know how long it takes to get home from work, I do it every day). I like the idea, but I haven't been able to get much use out of it. How do you generally utilize it?
- mark_l_watson 13y agoI think Google Now is just getting started, but the cards are a good start. I am a bit torn here: I believe in privacy (I contribute to ACLU, FSF, etc.) but I also see the value of an intelligent digital assistant that needs to know a lot about me to be useful.
- nickonline 13y ago- If you're about to get on a plane and you use Gmail it will let you know when you need to leave where you are, also will tell you if the plane is late - Daily weather updates - It's picked up the stocks I have from my google searches and shows me them - The time to get home from work is great if you've got google traffic monitoring, it can let you know where a crash is and suggest another route
- sosborn 13y agoI personally feel like Chrome is getting worse by the day, at least on OS X.
- hbbio 13y agoGmail used to be great. It's becoming horrible. Many things have changed: - Drive integration broke attachments, downloads, etc. - Editing is broken. Sometimes the cursor jumps for no reason. - etc.
- saraid216 13y ago> Drive integration broke attachments, downloads, etc. Could you elaborate? I haven't had any trouble with attachments or downloads at all and I haven't actually heard people complain about this before. > Editing is broken. Sometimes the cursor jumps for no reason. Though combined with this, I'm guessing you have something funky with Javascript on your browsers? Running NoScript, maybe?
- Camillo 13y ago> non-PC results lowered in priority What do you mean?