Google backtracks on search results design
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Google backtracks on search results design
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Re: Google backtracks on search results design
#2Thank goodness. Aside from everything looking like Ads I just really hated the design. I had a harder time extracting data from it when looking for a relevant link.
Re: Google backtracks on search results design
#3I’ve been on the test for this design since October 4, 2019, so I’ve actually gotten used to it! But it’s probably a good thing for them to backtrack. I wonder what went wrong in their clearly lengthy experiment about how this would perform.
Re: Google backtracks on search results design
#4Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22107823
Does this mean they'll also "backtrack" on their destruction of the URL? I was extremely disturbed and horrified when I realised that not only did they replace / with >, but also seemed to arbitrarily remove and rewrite pieces of URLs shown in the results (e.g. all articles from HM would show nothing more than "news.ycombinator.com > item", which was intensely confusing.)
Re: Google backtracks on search results design
#5It’s a little meta but I think the way this has unfolded doesn’t shine well on Danny Sullivan and his role at Google. Danny been in the search industry from pretty much the get go, he knows anyone who was anything in search, he “studied the great machine, knows things even Draal doesn’t know” [1], and yet he has been reduced to some sort of an after-fact PR person for decisions it seems he had no say on. Pity.
Re: Google backtracks on search results design
#6Don't care. Haven't used Google since they put social engineering and ad revenue ahead of search quality and usability When I peek in from time to time, it looks intolerable compared to DDG's clean results.
Re: Google backtracks on search results design
#7Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22107823 Does this mean they'll also "backtrack" on their destruction of the URL? I was extremely disturbed and horrified when I realised that not only did they replace / with >, but also seemed to arbitrarily remove and rewrite pieces of URLs shown in the results (e.g. all articles from HM would show nothing more than "news.ycombinator.com > item", which was…
I opened Chrome on a friends phone (first time on Chrome mobile in years) and was shocked to see the url bar is no longer editable. It just gave me a weird context menu with a copy icon.
I guess they really want to funnel everyone through search...
Re: Google backtracks on search results design
#8Don't care. Haven't used Google since they put social engineering and ad revenue ahead of search quality and usability When I peek in from time to time, it looks intolerable compared to DDG's clean results.
I tried using duckduckgo but gave up after I kept getting irrelevant results for simple queries
Re: Google backtracks on search results design
#9Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22107823 Does this mean they'll also "backtrack" on their destruction of the URL? I was extremely disturbed and horrified when I realised that not only did they replace / with >, but also seemed to arbitrarily remove and rewrite pieces of URLs shown in the results (e.g. all articles from HM would show nothing more than "news.ycombinator.com > item", which was…
I opened Chrome on a friends phone (first time on Chrome mobile in years) and was shocked to see the url bar is no longer editable. It just gave me a weird context menu with a copy icon. I guess they really want to funnel everyone through search...
Right next to that copy icon is a pencil - the edit icon.
Re: Google backtracks on search results design
#10While I’m glad they reverted, the doublespeak is absurd. As if they didn’t know users would hate it. User experience had nothing to do with this. It was all about revenue. The main question after this is what user hostile move will they attempt next?
Without major changes all over the company I don’t see how Google will get better.