Apart from the cheesy look of the logo, that actually looks much better, nicer and cleaner than the monstrosity they are serving today. It gives the user a very good, immediate overview of the results without bad, distracting UI noise all over the place. Sometimes less is definitely more. Not that it bothers me much though, I've long switch to duckduckgo. They are actually innovating at this search-engine game, much…
You cant be serious. I mean, it's nice that duckduckgo tries, but compared to google their "innovation" is basically non-existent. The amount of special cases and functionality google has added to their search engine the past couple years is massive[1]. They have become just fantastic at giving the user what they were searching for right away without even having to click on a link [2]. The use of space by google is s…
It is a source of great sadness to me that Google's algorithm, and the misuse of it be SEO scumbags, has fucked the web as a fun place to get information.
Even if we remove the scumbags we see a degraded web experience. Here's one example.
Play Dough recipe:
---- You need:
2 cups plain flour (all purpose) 2 tablespoons vegetable oil 1/2 cup salt 2 tablespoons cream of tartar 1.5 cups boiling water (adding more in increments if needed) food colouring (optional) few drops glycerine (optional- adds more shine!)
Method:
Mix the flour, salt, cream of tartar and oil in a large mixing bowl Add the boiling water Stir continuously until it becomes a sticky, combined dough Add the food colouring and glycerine (both optional) Allow it to cool down then take it out of the bowl and knead it vigorously for a couple of minutes until all of the stickiness has gone. * This is the most important part of the process, so keep at it until it’s the perfect consistency!* (If it remains a little sticky then add a touch more flour until just right) ----
With images this is, at most, a couple of hundred kB. But the page I get this from is over 2 MB.
(http://theimaginationtree.com/2012/04/best-ever-no-cook-play...)
It's a suboptimal experience. It's not even the ads that I dislike, I'm pretty tolerant of them. it's all the other junk and cruft. A 1998 WWW site would have had a recipe, and then had reasons for including the different ingredients, and an explanation of what happens if you don't have them. (and maybe it would have been collaboratively written by a Usenet newsgroup for their faq.)