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Google Drops Discussions Search Filter and Others

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Re: Google Drops Discussions Search Filter and Others

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Post by giardini »

alextingle wrote: post #23

This is the final nail in the coffin of DejaNews. Just another step in Google's continuing mission to make their Search product worse & worse. It's baffling.

This.

DejaNews was the absolute best source of technical information from the USENET archives, with posts back to the 1980s. By 2001 Google had everything under control:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!search/USENET$20archives

Then Google lost it.

The addition of "Google Groups" resulted in tons of SPAM and almost nothing of use. Now, because their own baby is so ugly, Google decided to kill all their adopted children. So much for "Don't be evil".

Re: Google Drops Discussions Search Filter and Others

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Post by coldtea »

psbp wrote: post #10
Piskvorrr wrote: post #7

Earlier 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.

Here, from the Oxford English Dictionary:

"""A condition of affairs or events of a character opposite to what was, or might naturally be, expected; a contradictory outcome of events as if in mockery of the promise and fitness of things."""

One would expect Google to help IMPROVE search, not hinder it.

Re: Google Drops Discussions Search Filter and Others

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Post by AznHisoka »

Pxtl wrote: post #17
jaredmcateer wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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".

Whenever I have a C# problem and google it, I always skip the MSFT documentation and go straight to any possible Stackoverflow or discussion page.

Re: Google Drops Discussions Search Filter and Others

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Post by adventureloop »

sentenza wrote: post #8

The 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 have described exactly what I use instapaper for.

It is a crying shame that the instapaper search is nearly useless, but it means I can usually cut down my search set to my own 500 saved pages vs the entire web.

Re: Google Drops Discussions Search Filter and Others

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Post by alextingle »

whizzkid wrote: post #29

Am i the only one recently having moments like "wait a second!", while using google services? Connecting every google service to a single one might be the best thing for Google, BUT, not for me! Google, you are almost merged with whole Internet thing, so stop forcing people into using a single system!! I like and use gmail often but don't want to be logged in while checking youtube!

Just use a different browser.

Re: Google Drops Discussions Search Filter and Others

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Post by 6cxs2hd6 »

Why would you want to search Discussions or Blogs? Everything interesting is already on Google+. /sarcasm

You know, someday Google+ will no longer be the "strategory" priority. There will be a new CEO. All the hands on the corporate ouija board will shift in yet another direction.

At which point, all these moves to deprecate parts of the web, in an effort to shore up G+? They will look even more unfortunate. So much discarded, for so little gain.

Re: Google Drops Discussions Search Filter and Others

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Post by frigg »

sentenza wrote: post #8

The 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…

>The 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.

That's exactly why you need something like discussions: refinement. There's no specific 'right result' for every possible user and query. Google might give precedence to blog posts or articles from big sites for some queries but what I really want is to search forum posts. They might as well just remove the search options for images with that premise, since they supposedly know what you really want and you don't need to filter.

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