Darn it- I’m afraid the version with the cog in the UR corner disappears when I do anything.
Fuck Google. Again.
Thanks, that is good, in a way, but it also shows that the problem is even worse than I had yet realized. Google now, apparently, has several different, inconsistent interfaces, with the options in different, non-obvious places, and there is no guide to them! (Or not one you can easily find.)
I just learned from someone in a GQ thread about the Verbatim search option. Great, that is a nice feature that at least restores some of the old functionality, BUT HOW THE HECK WAS I SUPPOSED TO KNOW THAT IT EXISTED, WHAT IT WAS CALLED, OR WHERE TO FIND IT! hidden away at the bottom of a menu that I otherwise have never thought to look at. And of course, if I want to use use it in a week or two, it will probably be hidden somewhere else (or gone altogether, or renamed).
Google is becoming impossible to learn to use effectively, because anything beyond the most basic search function (even though it may still exist, or even have been improved) is not to be found consistently in the same place. Sometimes it has moved because they just decided to move it (and changes seem very frequent now), and sometimes because you just accessed the site in a slightly different way.
Please. These types of complaints from entitled couch potatoes is hardly new, nor am I the first to call someone out on it. Just because I was the first to mention it during this particular circle jerk is irrelevant. That said, people can think whatever they want about me for having my opinion, but it’s hard to see it characterized as entitled. I am not the one complaining that a company that gives tons of free shit to all you greedy assholes on a daily basis made your life miserable because they “forced” you to bookmark a different page.
I am better than you in this case. Primarily because I have some perspective. This is a non-issue for the vast majority of people, most of whom count themselves lucky enough to even have Google or the Internet. And the few who do have a problem with it can and do complain directly to the company themselves if they actually want to affect change.
Now if I were one of these dinosaurs who inexplicably still goes to the google home page to initiate a search, I might be slightly annoyed that they moved around the stuff around. But after taking 10 seconds to figure out how to get what I needed done done, I would GET ON WITH MY DAY. I wouldn’t whine like a bitch with a skinned knee whose porridge is too hot.
Right, and I, of course, am somehow the bad guy here. You really need to get grip on your life. You’re not Rosa Parks fighting the good fight against the evil power structure, you are just some asshole on the internet who thinks their opinion is far more valuble than it is. The only thing I can take solace in is that Internet tough guys like you typically have no actual power or influence in the real world. Even suggesting that as some sort of means of protest is pretty shitty. But I am sure you knew that. The funny part is that you probably don’t even bother doing that stuff because like most entitled d-bags, you’re probably too lazy/ignorant.
I disagree heartily.
Says the asshole implicitly advocating sabotaging a company because they “hid” his favorite feature. The world does not cry for you sir. People have real problems, and sincere, legitamate complaints, some of which are (incidentally) about Google. This is not one.
Are you fucking retarded or something? Why do you think writing d-bag instead of douche bag is indicative of anything? I am not sure what you think you are calling me out on. Even if I didn’t know the word or how to spell it (I do), I could have just googled it (even without advanced search).
BTW you buttfuck, here’s is a good example of what happens when you TELL THEM:
Where has the Cached link gone?
i.e. some entry-level clueless Google flunkie says “Gee, I dunno” and that’s about it.
There was a similar thread which I don’t feel like looking for when Google dropped the word count from search results.
No sense bothering to explain to an idiot like you why these features are useful.
And there’s this.
In that article, there’s a link to another site with the results of a survey. Respondents were shown a full sized screenshot of Google search results, containing a set of links in separate box, with a different background color from the rest of the page labeled “Ads for credit score” with a link saying “Why these Ads?”. When asked if the page they just saw contained ads, 46.6% said “Yes”. In other words, the other 53.4% are complete morons.
Short of switching to large obnoxious banner, I don’t know what Google could do to get through to the idiots that they’re seeing an advertisement.
Or, you could just, you know, use a different search engine.
FTR, not from where I stand.
The crybabies here are loosing their case by refusing to stop using Google. Seriously if you feel you are “the product” stop using their services. Google is free. If by making your life way easier they make something for themselves doesn’t change this. The internet is not a zero-sum game.
Regardless I must point out that you are making your case to Big T. You’d have trouble limbo-ing under that bar.
I laughed.
Of course we still use it. When there was real search engine competition it was the best. The trouble is that it wiped out all its competition and is now effectively a monopoly that is abusing its monopolistic power, as monopolies always do. Even johnny-come-lately Bing, with all of Microsoft’s money behind it, is very much playing catch up. Yes, Google has the biggest index and still, for most purposes the best search algorithm. Once upon a time it had the best user interface too, but it has now thoroughly fucked that up in the name of pursuing the lowest common denominator of searching, and of squeezing the last few dollars it can out advertising to add to the billions it has made and continues to make.
Are you people from Google’s PR company or something? Why anyone should get ticked-off about people complaining about a product having got manifestly and unnecessarily worse than it used to be, and, what is more, from a company that used to promote itself as not being evil, but is now screwing over its most faithful users, is quite beyond me. You don’t have to bitch if you don’t want to. Enjoy taking up the arse if that is what you like, but why does it offend you so much that some of us still have enough backbone to care when we are bing screwed? Why is it sacrilege to you when someone complains about the great Google? We must all love Big Brother? Fuck that!
When the products have a choice to use a different website that offers them a better “bought and sold” experience?
This is the internet, websites explode onto the market with viral intensity, someone out-Google’s Google, and they could rapidly be on the outside looking in, thanks to fouling up their user experience.
A little perspective please. You’ve just done the same thing you’ve accused me of. Nowhere did I say you couldn’t complain. I said you (editorial you) weren’t making a good case. Why shouldn’t I be able to post an opposing P.O.V. without being labeled a PR hack for Google?
No one is “taking it up the ass” from Google regarding the changes discussed here. Google is a corporation. As such, it acts in it’s own best self interest. Your petty complaints could be leveled at most any corporation. Again, they are offering a free service, if you don’t think the good it provides out-weighs the bad then switch. But just because they made a change you don’t like doesn’t mean they are being “evil”. That notion is laughable.
Also, I never said I was offended at your stance. I never said it was sacrilege to complain. I never said Google was great or that we must love ‘Big Brother’. I find it amusing however that you would characterize Google as “Big Brother” yet not unplug when you so clearly could.
Look, rail away at the injustice if you need to but I’m missing how calling Google names on a trivia message-board is showing “backbone”. I really don’t give a fuck. If I have to take a few seconds to re-set a bookmark, I will… and never give it a second thought.
Wow, another retard. Is this really your example of Google cluelessness? Let’s review the record here.
Comment #1: Lady complains about cache being gone.
Comment #2: Lady from Google tells her where to find it, as it’s not actually gone.
Seems pretty goddamn responsive to me. Now if you are expecting that Google must make everything work in the way most convenient for you personally, I would say you are being unreasonable. Regardless, just because they don’t cave in to users demands, or agree with all their critiques, doesn’t mean they aren’t listening. You can harp on how bad Google is, but I know of few other companies that care as much about what their users think, and how they feel. Hell, they have people whose jobs are solely about improving the user experience.
But the cached link isn’t beneath each search result. To find it you need to hover the cursor over the result. An arrow symbol then appears to the right of the result. Hover over that arrow and a preview of the web page comes up to the right of that. Above the preview are links for Similar and Cached.
Still pretty simple but I can see why some are having trouble finding it.