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PSA: Google changes their search layout (Spoilers: It's garbage)
- Thread starter br0ken_shad0w
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Everything has icon in front, so it makes it harder to spot what is an ad now, lol. I bet they do this just because people eventually become conditioned to skip clicking on search ads, and this breaks that habit.
Quite the opposite. Ads look much more like a regular result now.
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It's honestly turning me off this forum. Sad to say as I've loved this place (and previous place) through the years. Just annoying to read hot take after hot take.
Whatever the date, this just started happening for me yesterday and I noticed it right away. I looked all over for an option to disable to no avail.
I believe there's 2 separate issues people are complaining about here:
1.) Is what the thread title is about.
2.) Is the fact that Google stealthily changed the results on the first page or so to mostly ads (now slightly hidden in plain sight thanks to 1.) and lackluster, paid-off, generic results no one cares about, esp. as a power user.
To make things worse, both of these changes have been slowly rolled out over the past 6 months which just confuses and conflates things. But I get what you mean, dude. Don't leave us tho!
It's funny 'cause I noticed something was up about a month ago but thought it was in my head. Then my dad noticed the same today and confirmed my suspicion. Along with this thread, I've def. narrowed it down to Google trying to be a stealthy jackass.
Agreed. It's really, really bad. Takes me so much longer to find what I am looking for.
here's what I think using it more.
If you are searching for an official website (like NHL.com, MLB.com, NBC.com) the icons are good. They let you quickly identify which search result is the official website. Sometimes I'll search "Sidney Crosby stats" or something similar, and seeing the little NHL favicon let's me get to it right away.
If you are searching some random query/question, I'm indifferent. I can see how people wouldn't like the visual change but it doesn't really bother me.
If you are searching for an official website (like NHL.com, MLB.com, NBC.com) the icons are good. They let you quickly identify which search result is the official website. Sometimes I'll search "Sidney Crosby stats" or something similar, and seeing the little NHL favicon let's me get to it right away.
If you are searching some random query/question, I'm indifferent. I can see how people wouldn't like the visual change but it doesn't really bother me.
I wonder if the google image search filters were a part of the change, because now you can't filter for huge images, only "large".
Duckduckgo is better anyway.
Duckduckgo is better anyway.
It's beyond hot takes.
This place has turned into just nonstop incessant bitching. About everything.
It's hilarious a lot of the time but it's devolved into just a forum of depressed and elitist complainers with not much to balance things out.
Hangouts are still mostly safe for now tho.
Just install tampermonkey:
(Chrome, Edge, Vivaldi) https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tampermonkey/dhdgffkkebhmkfjojejmpbldmpobfkfo?hl=en
(Firefox) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tampermonkey/
And this:
https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/395257-better-google
Now please close this thread. You're welcome.
(Chrome, Edge, Vivaldi) https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tampermonkey/dhdgffkkebhmkfjojejmpbldmpobfkfo?hl=en
(Firefox) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tampermonkey/
And this:
https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/395257-better-google
Now please close this thread. You're welcome.
Yeah I noticed this last night. It looks bad and throws me off. I thought I was getting nothing but ad results at first.
Quite the opposite. Ads look much more like ads now. The Ad icon is the first and most visible thing of the result.
I actually think it looks better. I noticed it a few days ago and I actually liked it. The changes are so small though, nothing major that would cause issues (except people complaining about anything).
Actually, the biggest issues with Google, is that most search results are Ads or links to some kind of sale. If you are searching for educational information, for example, it won't give you those results, but instead 50 results about " Buy this book"!
Actually, the biggest issues with Google, is that most search results are Ads or links to some kind of sale. If you are searching for educational information, for example, it won't give you those results, but instead 50 results about " Buy this book"!
Here is a relevant HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21427217
I mean, I still think people can talk about the overall change and if they like it or don't like it
Now, if you make a Google search on mobile, the favicon actually shows up. I think it's a good thing if two websites are named similarly. The only thing missing is the URL, but it's not a big problem.
Well, I did definitely notice it and it was weird at first, but it rapidly started to look normal, it's the same thing with every redesign and people tend to go overboard over those things. There's nothing wrong with the redesign of Reddit, yet people were bothered by it for more than a year.
I have to agree that removing the URLs is a bad move. It seems to me they're trying to force clicking on ads or scam sites that game results.
To be fair, reddit's entire design philosophy is extra '96 to begin with lol anything else would be an upgrade.
This guy gets it.
Noticed this right away. It's a small change, but a change for the worse. Like, why even change this?
Edit: Randomly Generated damn you're probably right.
Edit: Randomly Generated damn you're probably right.
