jeepinmatt
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- Joined
- Mar 24, 2005
- Location
- Stanley, NC
<rant>
Why do they continue to make everything worse? In the past couple of years, ive noticed the following:
1. Search results driven entirely by product placement instead of search result data. The "shopping" tab used to work really well. Now it sucks and pulls in unrelated results and has a crap layout. But now if you search, you get a shiton of product results and little to no useful results.
2. Extra click to edit URL in Chrome mobile: You used to be able to just click on the URL and edit or select, share, whatever. But now you click on it and it pulls up an icon menu which is a pain because its an extra click to do anything with the URL (except search for crappy product based results).
3. Swipe on news feed: You used to be able to simply swipe away stories and they were gone. Now you have to click on a tiny icon in the bottom corner, then select "Hide Story " from a list of small, closely spaced options, which often results in an accidental click of "Download Link" or something.
4. Videos in image search results. Self F'n explanatory. 80% of the search results on the "Images" tab are stills from a friggin video. There's a "Videos" tab for that so don't fill my image search with this useless drivel.
5. On the latest Chrome update which I got this evening, there are now 6 recent sites icons instead of 8.
Theres already plenty of real estate on the page. So why reduce the amount of useful content? Do they really think I'm going to want to click the big Google icon (which BTW is just dead text and not even a link) to go search for some product placement videos in my crappy image search results instead of going to the sites i regularly visit?
Theres a lot more, but these are just on my recent annoyances list.
</rant>
Why do they continue to make everything worse? In the past couple of years, ive noticed the following:
1. Search results driven entirely by product placement instead of search result data. The "shopping" tab used to work really well. Now it sucks and pulls in unrelated results and has a crap layout. But now if you search, you get a shiton of product results and little to no useful results.
2. Extra click to edit URL in Chrome mobile: You used to be able to just click on the URL and edit or select, share, whatever. But now you click on it and it pulls up an icon menu which is a pain because its an extra click to do anything with the URL (except search for crappy product based results).
3. Swipe on news feed: You used to be able to simply swipe away stories and they were gone. Now you have to click on a tiny icon in the bottom corner, then select "Hide Story " from a list of small, closely spaced options, which often results in an accidental click of "Download Link" or something.
4. Videos in image search results. Self F'n explanatory. 80% of the search results on the "Images" tab are stills from a friggin video. There's a "Videos" tab for that so don't fill my image search with this useless drivel.
5. On the latest Chrome update which I got this evening, there are now 6 recent sites icons instead of 8.
Theres a lot more, but these are just on my recent annoyances list.
</rant>
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