Google Goggles

[PonoBill]

Has anyone else noticed how much Google sucks lately? It's almost worthless for me. I may actually have to become a binger, or something. I can't find things I KNOW are there.

[SeaMe]

Has anyone else noticed how much Google sucks lately? It's almost worthless for me. I may actually have to become a binger, or something. I can't find things I KNOW are there.

For a moment there I thought you were talking about Google Glass…

I get the feeling like something changed somewhere in the backbone of the web. I don't remember when I first noticed it, but search results from all of the major engines—Google, Bing, Yahoo—have been less useful than usual. It's like someone tweaked an algorithm that they all share for the worst.

Give a try to DuckDuckGo.com or Mahalo.com, you might get better results.

[stoneaxe]

I've been a big user of the Google products...used to have an iGoogle home page until they got rid of iGoogle...now I use a knockoff. The changes they made to maps really suck but Tom pointed out that the classic version is still available (for now). Search results simply suck. Used to be you could find what you want in the 1st page...now...not neccesarily.

All the changes seem to be focused around monetizing it all...I guess Larry and Sergie need another private jet or three.

End result....I'm looking for alternatives and I'm beginning to seriously hate Google. I used to think I was OK with giving up my profile info for their ad use etc...in exchange for cool and useful tools. Now they can bite me.

[mrbig]

And I thought it was my internet newbieness. Things that are there are not there - don't care for the whack-
mole business model. Had to join Google wallet to buy fins, they do NOT know how to do that either! Bing, Yahoo seem to get better and more current (post 2010) results. Get your Google glasses today boys and girls. No no Nokia maps work okay. 

[DavidJohn]

YouTube used to be good once also.

[Weasels wake]

I have to keep a hard line phone for business reasons which opens me up to robo-calls.
I get a robo-call from Google almost everyday asking me to update my business info.
I have never listed my business with Google and I don't have a web page, never have, but I do have a gmail box, but still, WTF Google!  Leave me alone!!!
I always hang up.
I think they are fishing for more info on everybody, I don't trust them.

And what's up with that big ass barge(s) that they are building?

[PonoBill]

From a NYT article on drones and corporate acquisition of them:

My friend Jim Gleick, the author of “The Information” who is working on a book about time travel, is as leery as I am about the company whose unofficial motto is “Don’t Be Evil.”

“We’ve all learned that the nicest people with the best intentions are capable of bringing evil into the world,” he said. “No matter how sincere and idealistic they are, they are concentrating an enormous amount of power in our informational universe in a very small number of hands. A single, giant company responsible only to its managers can’t claim to have the world’s interests at heart. Ultimately, what Google does is for Google.”

The full article is here: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/16/opinion/game-of-drones.html?emc=edit_th_20140416&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=63253187&_r=0

I love how new technology and changes in the inefficient way that things have been done before are inevitably "dystopian".

[SeaMe]

Google motto 2004: Don't be evil
Google motto 2010: Evil is tricky to define
Google motto 2013: We make military robots

 Sums it up nicely IMHO.

[spookini]

Pono, your comments have been logged... and are now part of your permanent file in the bowels of Google HQ.