It's too late, lasting damage has been done. This redesign made me seriously look at DDG and I'm impressed with what I found.
Google backtracks on search results design
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Re: Google backtracks on search results design
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
I tried using duckduckgo but gave up after I kept getting irrelevant results for simple queries
After many tries at ddg, I am using startpage.com since it uses anonymized google results. Still far from perfect, but the best I have found for now.
startpage was purchased by an ad company last year.
Re: Google backtracks on search results design
#53I’m amazed that Google is essentially late 90s Microsoft at this point. It should be help in the same contempt.
Re: Google backtracks on search results design
#54I use google a lot, but I can’t escape the thought that every time I really need to find something (a book which title I barely remember, a product based on the job it does) I just can’t do it using google and that most of my queries are mostly key value lookups.
And yes, ads are annoying. Double ads in YouTube are annoying. f you google.
Re: Google backtracks on search results design
#55Even discounting for the fact the results looked closer to ads, they were also very distracting from an information heirarchy point of view.
My eyes first move thorough the colourful favicons first, then the url of the page and then the real content.
This flies in the face of good design.
Re: Google backtracks on search results design
#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
Calling it "backtracking" feels strange. They still want to put favicons in there, but as pointed out, the positioning is misleading since it's in the same spot as the "ad" icon. They will most likely just move it to another more unique position.
Favicon display seems rife for abuse. I wonder what happens if you put a favicon that looks like googles’ or that says “ad”. All sorts of fun to encourage clicks onto a malicious site because it looks safe.
I guarantee you will have people putting favicon looking like a check-mark or an arrow to make people click more.
Re: Google backtracks on search results design
#57You can always use another search engine..
Re: Google backtracks on search results design
#58Don't care. Haven't used Google since they put social engineering and ad revenue ahead of search quality and usability When I peek in from time to time, it looks intolerable compared to DDG's clean results.
IMHO the ads on Duck Duck Go are much worse / harder to ignore. At least Google puts the [Ad] icons on the left so they line up. DDG puts them at the end of the title so they are all over the place. Try to use it without an adblocker.
Re: Google backtracks on search results design
#59For me it was the straw that broke the camel's back. When this change went live I decided to switch to DDG and it's been a great experience. Search results are, in my opinion, more relevant and generally of better quality. I wish I would have switched sooner!
I'm in the exact same boat. To be honest, for a long time I'd role my eyes at the DDG users in every thread, talking about how it's hey, pretty good now . Well, now I'm that guy , because I think it's actually better than Google now. It looks crisper, cleaner, has way fewer ads, and does less fuzzing of my actual search terms. I love it -- I'm hooked.
Me too! I get less junky websites in the results.