Maybe this is a good spot to mention how much the updated Google Maps also suck. Pretty though.
Google Drops Discussions Search Filter and Others
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Re: Google Drops Discussions Search Filter and Others
#12The promise was that, as search engines get better, there would be no need for bookmarking and downloading, since all the content in the world is only one sloppy search query away. Somehow, I seem to have ignored this stubbornly and instead bookmarked pages, downloaded videos and copied strings (!) out of the web for years. Not that it did me much good, I now have thousands of inconsistently sorted bookmarks and a bu…
You can't really trust bookmarks either. Most of my bookmarks are dead either because the site is now gone or because some blog author decided to change their path format and didn't bother setup 301 redirects.
Re: Google Drops Discussions Search Filter and Others
#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
Google (which started as a search engine, way back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth) is now increasingly working on _narrowing down_ the search options available to users.
I need more clarification on how this is ironic.
The appeal of Google, back in the days of Altavista, was in the fact that it could search various things, giving better results. Now it's intent on giving you fewer things to search.
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Re: Google Drops Discussions Search Filter and Others
#15The promise was that, as search engines get better, there would be no need for bookmarking and downloading, since all the content in the world is only one sloppy search query away. Somehow, I seem to have ignored this stubbornly and instead bookmarked pages, downloaded videos and copied strings (!) out of the web for years. Not that it did me much good, I now have thousands of inconsistently sorted bookmarks and a bu…
I've found that copying recipes off of webpages is the most important one - you'll never find the same recipe twice.
Re: Google Drops Discussions Search Filter and Others
#16The promise was that, as search engines get better, there would be no need for bookmarking and downloading, since all the content in the world is only one sloppy search query away. Somehow, I seem to have ignored this stubbornly and instead bookmarked pages, downloaded videos and copied strings (!) out of the web for years. Not that it did me much good, I now have thousands of inconsistently sorted bookmarks and a bu…
I built my own little tag + bookmark browser extension with the dropbox API (my app is not public). It works for me. Just gotta get better at tagging. Basic browser bookmarks are not good enough.
Re: Google Drops Discussions Search Filter and Others
#17The promise was that, as search engines get better, there would be no need for bookmarking and downloading, since all the content in the world is only one sloppy search query away. Somehow, I seem to have ignored this stubbornly and instead bookmarked pages, downloaded videos and copied strings (!) out of the web for years. Not that it did me much good, I now have thousands of inconsistently sorted bookmarks and a bu…
You can't really trust bookmarks either. Most of my bookmarks are dead either because the site is now gone or because some blog author decided to change their path format and didn't bother setup 301 redirects.
Microsoft's help pages are the worst for this. "Oooh, confusing .NET problem I'll google a response - Hey, a nice forum-post explaining that MS has a document telling me how to handle this issue click NOOOOOOOOOOOOO".
Re: Google Drops Discussions Search Filter and Others
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
I need more clarification on how this is ironic.
The appeal of Google, back in the days of Altavista, was in the fact that it could search various things, giving better results. Now it's intent on giving you fewer things to search.
That changed long ago. All the google is doing last two years is stopping projects, removing features and replacing acceptable GUIs by less practical ones.
Re: Google Drops Discussions Search Filter and Others
#19The promise was that, as search engines get better, there would be no need for bookmarking and downloading, since all the content in the world is only one sloppy search query away. Somehow, I seem to have ignored this stubbornly and instead bookmarked pages, downloaded videos and copied strings (!) out of the web for years. Not that it did me much good, I now have thousands of inconsistently sorted bookmarks and a bu…
I've found that copying recipes off of webpages is the most important one - you'll never find the same recipe twice.
That is quite interesting.
Any idea why?
Re: Google Drops Discussions Search Filter and Others
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
The appeal of Google, back in the days of Altavista, was in the fact that it could search various things, giving better results. Now it's intent on giving you fewer things to search.
That changed long ago. All the google is doing last two years is stopping projects, removing features and replacing acceptable GUIs by less practical ones.
To be fair, they also work pretty hard at collecting your personal information.