Funny, it was the exact reason why I switched to duckduckgo for 99% of my searches. The day they did it, I switched because I had enough. I remember some intensively discussed post on HN.
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#162Earlier quoted context omitted.
I guess the question here is who is more like those doctors in this scenario: you, or the people running the randomized controlled trials?
It's kind of contrary for you to prove that google's design is optimal according to the scientific method with the bald assertion that it is scientific with zero evidence by virtue of it being proprietary. My feeling about its utility isn't a scientific statement its purely anecdotal but at least it represents a singular actual and honest viewpoint. You are free if you liked to express the alternative perspective tha…
> Not only are the filters not shown by default in google image search vs bing in mobile firefox google opted to disable that functionality meaning you had to load the slower desktop version of google for the tools to filter by date or other details to show up. This wasn't a bug it was a deliberate design decision to attack a competitor that they ultimately reversed later.
And reverse image search still doesn't work unless you spoof your user agent as mobile Chrome.
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#163Forget UX, the image search itself _doesn't_ work. Search for some known person's name. 90% of the image results will be from the side bars on LinkedIn page of that person, which have no relation to the search key words.
Wouldn't that be LinkedIn's fault for (presumably) not marking the sidebar as "not SEO content"? A few other websites have been destroying my searches this way.
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#164Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a subtle psychological manipulation of the mind of the users of computers - stick to the simple use case, and don't do complicated things, don't try to be an advanced user, don't think for yourself and just consume what we tell you to. I hate it.
> I hate it. There's nothing you can do. Computing stopped being about expert users the minute the rest of the world got online. Now the giants control all the devices, platforms, and mindshare. They will never cater to you. Informed users aren't the ones clicking the ads or buying the things as intended. We've crossed into the gravity well of user hostility, and there's no longer any escape. I hate it too.
The annoying part is that they still need help with a lot of stuff but now all I can say is "no, I just don't know." I used to be able to figure out just about anything they wanted help with, be it how to program the video or set up windows just the way they wanted or in worst case write a program that solved whatever for them. Now I just feel stupid. What happened?
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#165I started using Bing's image search when Google Images started going downhill. It's cleaner and more usable, with easier access to the original image. But Bing has unfortunately been going downhill, too. It does some double redirect that breaks the back button, and it often appears to be stuck. And its ads are intrusive. But the worst thing is how they inserted this thing called "Shop for similar", which is a complet…
Give Yandex Images a try
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#166Earlier quoted context omitted.
They have the right to sell them. I'm not sure it's ethical to do so for $1k/image. It's definitely not OK that they billed the photographer who took the public domain photos for using them on her own site. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_M._Highsmith#Getty_Image...
I think people buy public domain images from Getty, because Getty will be liable in case that an unknown license of a public domain image suddenly pops up. Means they protect their customers from IP trolls. That being said, anything published on the web should be free. E.g. if some don't want their image to be used, they should not publish it publicly in the first place.
If you're using my IP without my permission, saying your friend told you it was actually his IP isn't a valid defence.
I mean, maybe you can sue your friend later on, but that's between you and him.
All that matters to me is that you've used my IP without my permision.
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#167Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's wrong with Getty? They spend a lot of money to take pictures, and other people pay money to use them. How would you change their business model? EDIT: I hadn't realized that Getty is the reason for the removal of the view image button! I stand by my comment in general, however I do think removing that button is crappy.
Getty charges $1000 for public domain photos. Fuck 'em! EDIT: They also fraudulently claim to own public domain photos and legally threaten people who use them, demanding payment.
Maryam Jafri has had a small installation called "Getty vs. Ghana" (https://www.maryamjafri.net/gettyVsGhana.htm) that was once shown in the MAC/VAL.
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#168Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think the shift in recent years has been from "UI designers" to "graphic designers". There is a massive difference between the two, but also a lot of conflation. Computer programmers may not be the best UI designers, but graphic designers are even less so, and the "but my art!" graphic designers are the absolute worst.
a main tenet of graphic design is sacrificing your art for functionality. i'm not sure what designers you've been speaking to, but i doubt they're professionals.
That is still the wrong way to look at it. Functionality comes first, then you can make that look pretty. There should be no art in your UI.
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#169Someone in Google’s UX and Design department, really needs go out and breathe some fresh air. Is it only me, who dislikes 95% of the design decision of Google products in the recent years?
There are so many things that bother me about contemporary UI in general, I ranted on here the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24965293 I sincerely feel that the discipline of building user interfaces is long lost and perhaps never to come back. From car dashboards to loud typography, the whole field is regressing. Minimalism, too much white space, infantilization of users, design trends, loss of pred…
Agreed. Finding the right balance between beauty and functionality is definitely a something that seems to be in decline. I've used applications that present too much data and others that hide it all away, both equally frustrating.
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#170Earlier quoted context omitted.
Given two functionally equivalent pieces of software, customers will choose the prettier of the two. That's all I want to contribute to the conversation.
Yes, same: If your solution users aren't satisfied, then your solution is naively unpragmatic.
That's a totally meaningless sentence.