Maybe this is a good spot to mention how much the updated Google Maps also suck. Pretty though.
Just awful, I agree.
Google Drops Discussions Search Filter and Others
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Re: Google Drops Discussions Search Filter and Others
#42I am very sad to see the blog option go away. I used that all the time.
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#43Duck Duck Go. Jus' sayin'
I am afraid I don't understand. Duck Duck Go searches google, so if you are having a problem with a google service, how would this help?
No, it uses bing + a little secret sauce, as I understand it.
Edit: "Link results are API driven, though top links may come from other sources. Link sources include: Bing, Yahoo, Yandex, Blekko, WolframAlpha, and many others."[1]
"DuckDuckGo gets its results from over one hundred sources, including DuckDuckBot (our own crawler), crowd-sourced sites (like Wikipedia, which are stored in our own index), Yahoo! (through BOSS), Yandex, WolframAlpha, and Bing. For any given search, there is usually a vertical search engine out there that does a better job at answering it than a general search engine. Our long-term goal is to get you information from that best source, ideally in instant answer form."[2]
1. http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/1/28/duckduckgo-archite...
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#44The 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.
I typically use google images to search for recipes, I very rarely have issues relocating a recipe.
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#45This train has derailed a while ago.
You couldn't search discussions AND verbatim.
Verbatim got broken a while ago too.
Now they explicitly state that they skipped some of your search terms (presumably for better paid keywords).
Oh, and don't forget paying link-scheming SEO clients.
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#46"Now when you search, the type of results you can select at the top of the page will vary depending on what makes sense for your search."
Makes sense to Google, that is. Shopping and apps make sense. A discussion that might take an hour to read or prompt one to read further discussions instead of shopping, liking or checking in doesn't.
It's a future where I decide to go out to eat because I can't find a recipe I like. I climb in my self driving car and it takes me to Taco Bell. And only Taco Bell.
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#47I also notice that depending on your search terms it now changes the order of the menu items; I was very surprised a few day ago when I noticed that Images wasn't the second list option on the screen.
To test this seach for "images" or "videos" on google. It will change the list order.
This is extremely irritating as it tries to guess whether you're trying to search for a certain type of of thing (text/images/vid/news/shopping/etc), as it frequently guesses wrong, and then sends us searching for the right list option because they've been shuffled round.
Designers, do not change your menu item order unless you're damned sure you're gonna get it right. Confusing your users is never helpful.
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Re: Google Drops Discussions Search Filter and Others
#48Why 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…
This actually looks worse than a move to shore up G+. The list of things they've pared it down to looks suspiciously like a list of categories that have the highest advertising revenue.
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#49Earlier 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.
That's what the Internet Archive is for :)
And there's an interesting idea for a browser extension.
If the page the user is looking for no longer exists, check the internet archive and present that instead.
Re: Google Drops Discussions Search Filter and Others
#50The 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.
Similarly, I found a page a few days ago about fixing the rMBP trackpad in Windows 8, and now that I have Windows 8, I just can't find it again! Really wish I'd bookmarked it.