Does anybody go directly to "google.com" any more? Most search is through the browser's search box.
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#22Maybe I'm being nitpicky here, but perhaps blue is not the best choice for this page, if they want to stay neutral (or perhaps they dont?).
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#23This infuriates me as a Twitter stockholder and user. Has everyone at Twitter fallen asleep? How could they not have the jump on Google on this.
Next time invest in a company that knows what it's doing.
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#24Just like Google. Give people no reason to use something, just put it out there, and hey "We're Google!" and they will come.
Except no, they don't.
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#25Too bad no candidate is worth listening to. :P
I'd try to explain to you how dumb that statement is, but you're too dumb to get it? :P
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#26This infuriates me as a Twitter stockholder and user. Has everyone at Twitter fallen asleep? How could they not have the jump on Google on this.
Isn't this more just a response to Twitter? People already find what the politicians are saying on their twitter feeds...
that's what I was thinking. Trump is HUGE on Twitter. Bernie is HUGE on Twitter...this seems exactly like every other time Google plays "me too".
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#27This infuriates me as a Twitter stockholder and user. Has everyone at Twitter fallen asleep? How could they not have the jump on Google on this.
I think part of it is due to the fact that Google has greater access to a broader audience. Not everyone will search Twitter for "Donald Trump" but they will certainly search Google - so Google is providing a way for the candidates to take advantage of what is already happening probably millions of times every day.
Agreed.
I'd argue further that Twitter has done close to nothing to make their search a useful feature in the first place, which is why people aren't searching Twitter with "Donald Trump". If I was Twitter, this would be very worrying. All they've managed to do so far is "firehose search", which is only useful for realtime events unfolding. They probably should have been thinking about "topic search" and "person search" for a while now...
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Isn't this more just a response to Twitter? People already find what the politicians are saying on their twitter feeds...
that's what I was thinking. Trump is HUGE on Twitter. Bernie is HUGE on Twitter...this seems exactly like every other time Google plays "me too".
> Bernie is Yuuuge on Twitter
FTFY
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#29Some examples of these seem to be: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=hillary+issues https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=bernie+issues I'm referring to the postings with the photo and the checkmark and the "On Google" text, not the ones pulled from news sources, like the ones for "trump issues"
I'm thrilled to report that uBlock Origin completely strips out this spam on the search results page. I was worried that it might take some time to filter out this noise from the search results page, but apparently not!
If you search for widgets, why is relevant info from the foremost expert on widgets spam?
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#30It could be that this is massive, and has little or nothing to do with the US presidential election. They're going to try to force their way into social by grafting social media posts onto the one thing basically everyone uses - the search page.
Or it could be a desire to provide maximally relevant search results. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, Dr. Freud. Not-a-disclaimer: I'm spending the year at Google (as a visiting scientist; I don't own stock and have no financial interest in its success). You might be surprised by how strong the desire is to do the right thing by users and make it easy for them to find what they're looking for. There's not always a…
Happy searchers _and_ AdWords.