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    News - Google introduces several search enhancements

    The search giant gets back to basics with a number of new features designed to make search easier.
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    Re: News - Google introduces several search enhancements

    Every new 'feature' google has added to their search has made it suck more and more. They just need to roll it back to just a text input field and a submit button.
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    Re: News - Google introduces several search enhancements

    How exactly has each new feature made Google search worse?

    On another note, I'm still using Bing, and none of the new features have persuaded me to change back yet. Also, won't preloading web pages slow down the browser even more? Instant search, preloading web pages etc...
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    Re: News - Google introduces several search enhancements

    Quote Originally Posted by cameronlite View Post
    How exactly has each new feature made Google search worse?
    Take instant. As soon as you start typing in a search term, AJAX voodoo updates the page as you type. Not only are the results superfiltered, the update-as-you-type thing is epically distracting and annoying. Not only that, but it's set by default for every browser which doesn't have a cookie for their site, even if you have a google account it's not stored in account settings.

    And then you have suggestions overriding the browsers search field history. My GOD that ticked me off. And you can't turn the damn thing off at all.

    And just look at Google's home page source code now. For something which shouldn't even exceed a kilobyte now weighs in over 10kb for the HTML alone.

    They're just ruining their own service.

    Quote Originally Posted by cameronlite View Post
    On another note, I'm still using Bing, and none of the new features have persuaded me to change back yet. Also, won't preloading web pages slow down the browser even more? Instant search, preloading web pages etc...
    Yes, the same as all their other crap. Why did you start using bing over google btw?
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    Re: News - Google introduces several search enhancements

    Well, when bing was released, i tried it and found it to return perfectly adequate results. I went back to Google, but continued to find myself switching to bing - I guess i just prefer it.

    The fact is that when i use Google, i occasionally switch to Bing for the odd search becasue the results were rubbish and vice versa!

    Bing also has better instant results (calculations, wolfram alpha integration etc) and I find Bing maps better for arial views than Google. However, if I want directions, it's straight to Google.

    I'm also quite a fan of the originally gimmicky information squares on Bing's home page - I pick up many interesting facts.
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    Re: News - Google introduces several search enhancements

    Quote Originally Posted by aidanjt View Post
    Every new 'feature' google has added to their search has made it suck more and more. They just need to roll it back to just a text input field and a submit button.
    I use Google SSL, nothing fancy works with it, it's amazing. You can still do useful things like image search and filter results by date, etc.

    Bing has better maps, but that's about it. Google has suffered mainly due to SEO which clogs up reasonable searches. Thankfully you can now block the offending shopping sites Or there's http://gmbmg.com/.

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    Re: News - Google introduces several search enhancements

    I also hate Google Instant Search, waste of code that is. When I change the setting, however, it remembers it.

    I do welcome the photo search, that can be very handy. The others I'm not bothered about, as long as I'm not forced to use it I'm fine for others to have the option there.

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    Re: News - Google introduces several search enhancements

    Agreed, Google Instant sucks. About as annoying as page previews.

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