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The Chosen One said:
Ah I remember the days when using search engines was a gentlemen's sport.
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I remember the days when the "search engines" were nothing more than a yellow pages for websites.
 
I really hate instant and I took it off already. It's just irritating to have my screen shifting and flashing crap while I type.
 
Ugh, the instant thing is cool, but why did they have to shift the results to the middle and add the sidebar? One of the best things about google was full screen results and no clutter on the left side.
 
You get distracted by the results you get and have the urge to click, or the shifting page distracts you?

The hell, I didn't know GAF was populated with elementary school children.
 
This rules so much. Also, the google image has changed (again?). When you click a picture it takes you to a window where you can see the full size image and right side of the screen has a sidebar with "show me this page" or whatever
 
PetriP-TNT said:
This rules so much. Also, the google image has changed (again?). When you click a picture it takes you to a window where you can see the full size image and right side of the screen has a sidebar with "show me this page" or whatever
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welcome to like 4 months ago
 
Is this the biggest upgrade google has ever done to their search? At first it was a little weird for me now that I'm used to it I love it. So many seconds of my life will now be saved. :D
 
It's the other way around for me.

I'm often skimming the results while typing the next query already. Can't do that anymore.

Unless of course I disable the feature. Which I'm not sure gets saved to a cookie or something. If it doesn't, it's yet another ploy to get people to sign up for a Google account.
 
wow this is pretty rad. I still prefer Bing for image search though--Google's image search is sort of a mess now. And we all know how awesome Bing's video search engine is.
 
That's really great that Google finally figured out a way to show it's users more ads per search.

What a load of horse shit. Who do they think they are fooling?
 
Liu Kang Baking A Pie said:
This sort of cynicism is wretched.
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Yea. I think someone posted a few pages back that Google only counts an ad hit if it stays on the screen for 3 seconds. So the ads that flash by as you type don't get counted.

Plus... Google has always made their money off of ads. If this is new to you, or suddenly discomforting, I dunno..... you dumb.
 
Futureman said:
Yea. I think someone posted a few pages back that Google only counts an ad hit if it stays on the screen for 3 seconds. So the ads that flash by as you type don't get counted.

Plus... Google has always made their money off of ads. If this is new to you, or suddenly discomforting, I dunno..... you dumb.
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You don't really know how advertising works if you think an ad is only effective if you buy (or I suppose "click" in this case) the product being advertised. It's not a coincidence that "instant search" is enabled by default.

Yes, Google makes money from ads (it wasn't *always* like this as you stated, but whatever, it's immaterial to my post) but unlike every other corporation in the United States, they have the audacity to collect copious amount of personal data on it's users then sell their users on the slogan "Don't Be Evil" as if that somehow makes them better or different from other companies competing with them. You do realize that Google can't make money unless it's users trust it enough to hand over their personal data for free? You do realize that Google could just not say anything at all and their users, if they liked their services, would still assign their own positive adjectives to describe the company regardless of whether or not Google tried to control and filter it's image? But Google makes too much money selling your personal data to risk it so they make up non-sensical horse shit like "Don't Be Evil," and their users buy into that line of thinking because they are too busy wasting time on the internet to question why Google would even bother saying that in the first place. It's time to learn to accept and understand what is going on around you. The only difference between Google and Microsoft or Apple or whomever is their relative smugness.
 
esquire said:
You don't really know how advertising works if you think an ad is only effective if you buy (or I suppose "click" in this case) the product being advertised. It's not a coincidence that "instant search" is enabled by default.

Yes, Google makes money from ads (it wasn't *always* like this as you stated, but whatever, it's immaterial to my post) but unlike every other corporation in the United States, they have the audacity to collect copious amount of personal data on it's users then sell their users on the slogan "Don't Be Evil" as if that somehow makes them better or different from other companies competing with them. You do realize that Google can't make money unless it's users trust it enough to hand over their personal data for free? You do realize that Google could just not say anything at all and their users, if they liked their services, would still assign their own positive adjectives to describe the company regardless of whether or not Google tried to control and filter it's image? But Google makes too much money selling your personal data to risk it so they make up non-sensical horse shit like "Don't Be Evil," and their users buy into that line of thinking because they are too busy wasting time on the internet to question why Google would even bother saying that in the first place. It's time to learn to accept and understand what is going on around you. The only difference between Google and Microsoft or Apple or whomever is their relative smugness.
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It sucks that Google is the only search engine on the Internet.
 
Liu Kang Baking A Pie said:
It sucks that Google is the only search engine on the Internet.
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Heh.

I miss Altavista.
 
So when are we going to get this for chrome addresses bar? I don't go to the google site to do searches at all.
 
Imbarkus said:
Heh.

I miss Altavista.
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It's still around. http://www.altavista.com

Btw, how is Bing? I'm thinking of switching to it.

I'm particularly annoyed with Google that I can't go back to the original image search. The only way I can get the old image search is by using an ancient browser like IE6.

If Google wants to add new fluff, then fine. But let us revert back to the simple streamlined versions if we want.
 
So, what's the reason this is only available in certain countries? To decrease server load? It really annoys me that I can't try this just because I'm in Sweden.

(Not that it would work in Opera anyway, I guess, since Google seem to do everything in their power to make their services non-compatible with Opera.)

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Krowley said:
Not feeling it at all. And also, it doesn't work with opera (although you can make it work by having opera identify as firefox).
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Oh, yeah, that's usually the solution... Yeah, I really dislike Google for purposely blocking Opera for no reason. Very stupid.
 
The Chosen One said:
It's still around. http://www.altavista.com

Btw, how is Bing? I'm thinking of switching to it.

I'm particularly annoyed with Google that I can't go back to the original image search. The only way I can get the old image search is by using an ancient browser like IE6.

If Google wants to add new fluff, then fine. But let us revert back to the simple streamlined versions if we want.
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Ha! They removed the audio search tab. We got good use out of that back in the day when Kazaa was prominent.
 
Yeah I went from WebCrawler --> Excite --> AltaVista --> Google.

I'll always be grateful to WebCrawler for emancipating me from AOL Hell. The wax came off my eyes and I discovered the true Internet.
 
The Chosen One said:
Btw, how is Bing? I'm thinking of switching to it.
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lol, what? It's a website, dude. You can go there and see for yourself.

The Chosen One said:
I'm particularly annoyed with Google that I can't go back to the original image search. The only way I can get the old image search is by using an ancient browser like IE6.

If Google wants to add new fluff, then fine. But let us revert back to the simple streamlined versions if we want.
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What's wrong with the new image search? It's weird at first because you're used to seeing more useless data, but it's totally faster and better in practice.
 
Liu Kang Baking A Pie said:
What's wrong with the new image search? It's weird at first because you're used to seeing more useless data, but it's totally faster and better in practice.
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• Doesn't show file size.

• Difficult to jump to a particular page.

• Doesn't show URL.

• Doesn't show resolution (by default).

• To reach the button to go back to the old version you have to scroll (or use End) past a thousand pics.


And if you switch to the "old version", you're still annoyed by:

• When clicking on a thumbnail, you can't scroll / browse the page it's on.
 
Goldrusher said:
• Doesn't show file size.

• Difficult to jump to a particular page.

• Doesn't show URL.

• Doesn't show resolution (by default).

• To reach the button to go back to the old version you have to scroll (or use End) past a thousand pics.


And if you switch to the "old version", you're still annoyed by:

• When clicking on a thumbnail, you can't scroll / browse the page it's on.
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You can turn on displaying the resolution.

For the rest, why is any of that as important as the image you are searching for? You search for an image, you find it, and you use it.
 
Goldrusher said:
If none of it is important, how come it was there so many years ?
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Do you make websites? I've made some shitty shit that I know is shitty shit and just leave it there because I'm busy on other stuff.

Who uses the "Reply" button on the left under people's usernames here? It's still there, though.
 
Liu Kang Baking A Pie said:
Who uses the "Reply" button on the left under people's usernames here? It's still there, though.
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I do. My mouse pointer is usually closer to one of those than the "post reply"-button
 
Goldrusher said:
So because you think it's shitty shit, nobody else is allowed to have it ? Not even the option to enable it ?
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You try to support the avalanche of features and build-up that comes from perpetually enabling every version of something you have ever made.

I also didn't say the old Google Images was shitty shit. I bet someone at Google recognized that they could do it better and thought it, though.

Life changes, dude.
 
Liu Kang Baking A Pie said:
It sucks that Google is the only search engine on the Internet.
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I ended up using Teoma for awhile when Google accused me of being a robot and it looks exactly like Google now.
 
The only thing I really, really don't like about Instant is that the fade-in on the homepage is gone. :( I never used the homepage and have only used Instant "for real" (modifying a Chrome query) once so far (out of about 30+ or so queries since it launched), but I still wish they kept the fade-in. Makes Google look so nice by default.
 
Andrex said:
The only thing I really, really don't like about Instant is that the fade-in on the homepage is gone. :( I never used the homepage and have only used Instant "for real" (modifying a Chrome query) once so far (out of about 30+ or so queries since it launched), but I still wish they kept the fade-in. Makes Google look so nice by default.
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Fade-in is still there for me.

Edit- WTF? It was there yesterday 0_o.
 
Came across a pretty funny article on Google Instant.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/sep/13/charlie-brooker-google-instant

The whole thing is worth a read but here are some snippets

...like trying to order from a waiter who keeps finishing your sentences while ramming spoonfuls of what he thinks you want directly into your mouth, so you can't even enjoy your blancmange without chewing a gobful of black pudding first.
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I wasn't using the computer. The computer was using me – to keep its keys warm. (Apart from "enter", obviously. I didn't even have to press that.)
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I can see where it's heading: a service called Google Assault that doesn't even bother to guess what you want, and simply hurls random words and sounds and images at you until you dribble all the fluid out of your body. And I know it'll kill me, unless I train my brain to withstand and ignore it. For me, the war against the machines has started in earnest.
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Charlie Brooker loses all his charm and wit when he talks about technology. All the jokes are so awkward and forced. Like he realizes it's something he has to discuss to appear on top of relevant new things, but he doesn't do it any better than some jerk on a tech blog.
 
Liu Kang Baking A Pie said:
Charlie Brooker loses all his charm and wit when he talks about technology. All the jokes are so awkward and forced. Like he realizes it's something he has to discuss to appear on top of relevant new things, but he doesn't do it any better than some jerk on a tech blog.
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Yeaah, no.
 
Does this shit not work on Google.ca? :(

I wanted to give it a try, but hitting google.com always reroutes me to google.ca, and it doesn't seem to be a selectable option.
 
Holy crap, they're doing previews now?
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Yeap.. it is either slowly rolling out, or only released to a subset of users for testing purposes

it isn't enabled for me, but a number of tech blogs have mentioned it over the past day or two, i'm not sure how i feel about it personally, though i'd have to see it for myself to judge
 
Xrenity said:
Holy crap, they're doing previews now?
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I think the context based preview on Bing is better.

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