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Re: The next Google

#101

Post by trh0awayman »

legohead wrote: post #98

I just went on a mini vacation to Vegas, and was thinking how nice it would be to just call up someone and ask for some simple advice. I did a bunch of online research before I booked things, but man was it painful. There are so many copy-cat blogs who just throw together a bunch of basic information with no real research done in order to get those clicks/adwords. For example: best hotel pool in vegas. Seems simple e…

There used to be a search engine in the mid 2000s that was just like this.

It was called ChaCha: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChaCha_(search_engine)

Re: The next Google

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Post by IshKebab »

GoatOfAplomb wrote: post #23
qeternity wrote: post #10

> Everybody has different preferences of how they want a search engine to look and feel. This sounds like it was written by the infamous Dropbox commenter. No, most people have never given a single thought to this.

Agreed, but I think there's probably a profitable business to be made out of 1% of Google Search's users.

Maybe it should be titled "The Next Bing"!

Re: The next Google

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Post by educaysean »

davidkunz wrote: post #9

> The next Google can’t just be an input box that spits out links. An input box that spits out links is _exactly_ what I want.

Your answer reminded me of the Ford quote: "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses."

I don't mean that in a derogatory sense, I just strongly believe that in 20 years we'll look back at our Googling years and wonder how we managed to find anything at all. Who know what the next pattern of information retrieval will be, but I personally think it'll be an even bigger jump than the jump from reference desks and encyclopedias to Google.

Edit: okay, maybe not 20 years. Decades, perhaps.

Re: The next Google

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Post by ryandrake »

superasn wrote: post #89

Google can be the next Google if they just stopped being evil for a second: 1. Let me ban domains like pinterest, quora, stackoverflow clones, stock image sites, etc without requiring a chrome extension. 2. Do what I ask it to do. Don't be too smart. Bring back the plus sign, minus sign, double quotes, tilde which have been deprecated over these years and stop polluting the results with what it thinks I want. 3. A ne…

4. How about an image search that... actually returns the URL of the raw image?

Here's a dead simple use case that is just unnecessarily frustrating. As a user, I want a high res picture of a buffalo. So:

a. I do an image search for "buffalo" and the results page contains thumbnails of buffalos.

b. I click the first result, it's tagged with "nationalgeographic.com" so it's probably gonna be good. Instead of the image, I get another page, but with a slightly bigger picture than a thumbnail. When you over over it, it says "3,072 x 3,072" but the image itself is clearly not that resolution.

c. So I click that image, and it opens a new goddamn tab of nationalgeographic.com's web site, with another picture, still not the promised 3,072 x 3,072! WTF!? When I try scrolling down to look for the raw image somewhere I'm hit with an E-mail signup-wall. Good grief!

d. Little did I know, if at step b. I instead right-clicked on the image and selected "Open Image in a new tab", I'd have gotten the image I was looking for. Thanks, Google, for hiding the 99.9% use case that people want to do.

The actual user experience should have been:

a. I do an image search for "buffalo" and the results page contains thumbnails of buffalos next to clickable .jpg links. The End.

Re: The next Google

#107

Post by umvi »

> For this new generation, privacy is necessary, and invasive ads are not an option

Ok, so how does the new generation pay for itself? I couldn't find that anywhere in the article.

Re: The next Google

#108

Post by anticristi »

legohead wrote: post #98

I just went on a mini vacation to Vegas, and was thinking how nice it would be to just call up someone and ask for some simple advice. I did a bunch of online research before I booked things, but man was it painful. There are so many copy-cat blogs who just throw together a bunch of basic information with no real research done in order to get those clicks/adwords. For example: best hotel pool in vegas. Seems simple e…

When I visited my mom in Romania, I was amazed that hair dressers filled *exactly this purpose*. It almost felt like you were "Googling" for 30 minutes and getting a haircut as a side-effect.

Customer: How is the newly opened Spa?

Hair dresser: Other customers said the water was cold.

Re: The next Google

#109

Post by smlacy »

trh0awayman wrote: post #101
legohead wrote: post #98

I just went on a mini vacation to Vegas, and was thinking how nice it would be to just call up someone and ask for some simple advice. I did a bunch of online research before I booked things, but man was it painful. There are so many copy-cat blogs who just throw together a bunch of basic information with no real research done in order to get those clicks/adwords. For example: best hotel pool in vegas. Seems simple e…

There used to be a search engine in the mid 2000s that was just like this. It was called ChaCha: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChaCha_(search_engine)

See also Aardvark: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aardvark_(search_engine)

Acquired by Google in 2010 and ...

Re: The next Google

#110

Post by joering2 »

superasn wrote: post #99
annexrichmond wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe they can include these features in a premium service, and call it... Google+?

I know your comment is tongue-in-cheek but I happily pay for Youtube premium and it's truly an amazing experience compared to the ad-ridden non-usable free Youtube. If Google created a similar Google premium where it had such features and no pesky ads I'd pay for it in a heartbeat.

I'm about to do this as well. Must be amazing experience. First when I stareted youtube on my FireStick it was one commercial 5 seconds. Then 2 comms 5 sec. Then 2 each 1:30 seconds, but I can "skip ads" after 5 sec. Now its 2, sometimes 3, each 2:50 (I seen ad for some Christian church had 28 minutes!) and sometimes no "skip ads" button. The YT+ cost $18 per month... alot, until you realize huge freedom of not wasting 15 to 30 minutes a day when you want to do some research and watch some science-focused videos.
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