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created by jablanovix on 14/08/2022 at 12:32 UTC
59677 upvotes, 120 top-level comments (showing 25)
Comment by MilkedMod at 14/08/2022 at 12:32 UTC*
1 upvotes, 1 direct replies
u/jablanovix has provided this detailed explanation:
This has aged like milk because Google is a search engine with weather, with news feed, with links to sponsors, with ads, with distractions, with portal litter.
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Comment by Ga_Manche at 14/08/2022 at 12:45 UTC
1392 upvotes, 9 direct replies
They had to get their hooks in somehow.
Comment by f_ranz1224 at 14/08/2022 at 13:10 UTC*
2145 upvotes, 12 direct replies
Google was a gamechanger when it first came out. All other search engines were bloated and overloaded. Especially back in the day of modems, you could be at the site you wanted in the time another engine was still loading its front page.
Anyway like all good things, popularity is monetized
Comment by [deleted] at 14/08/2022 at 13:15 UTC
388 upvotes, 3 direct replies
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Comment by wOlfLisK at 14/08/2022 at 13:21 UTC
987 upvotes, 14 direct replies
I'm not so sure about this one. Pre-google, search engines looked like this[1]. Just an absolute cluster fuck of news, adverts and useless junk with the actual search bar being tiny and hidden. Google had none of that shit and it still doesn't, the home page is still an incredibly clean and minimalistic page.
Google only shows ads and weather etc in its search and that's only if it decides it's relevant. You won't be seeing local weather forecasts when searching up laptops and you won't be seeing ads for laptops when looking up the weather forecast. So I don't think this has aged like milk at all.
Comment by jeremyfrankly at 14/08/2022 at 13:56 UTC
69 upvotes, 1 direct replies
This is still true. It's a description of the search page and how it's able to load quickly.
Comment by oouncolaoo at 14/08/2022 at 13:50 UTC
83 upvotes, 2 direct replies
She did Google get rid of “I’m feeling lucky”
Hit me right in the nostalgia
Comment by Fuzzwuzzle2 at 14/08/2022 at 14:23 UTC
56 upvotes, 3 direct replies
Just googled "pizza hut" first responce was a paid for result for Dominoes
GG Google.... GG
Comment by [deleted] at 14/08/2022 at 15:22 UTC
40 upvotes, 2 direct replies
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Comment by thewarfreak at 14/08/2022 at 13:09 UTC
54 upvotes, 4 direct replies
I'll stick with Alta Vista.
Comment by [deleted] at 14/08/2022 at 16:00 UTC
13 upvotes, 3 direct replies
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Comment by [deleted] at 14/08/2022 at 13:33 UTC
29 upvotes, 1 direct replies
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Comment by TimeToBecomeEgg at 14/08/2022 at 14:45 UTC
9 upvotes, 0 direct replies
i mean… google still doesn’t show bullshit on the home page / new tab page. they track you but no ads yet lol
Comment by Juviltoidfu at 14/08/2022 at 15:46 UTC
7 upvotes, 1 direct replies
For a few years in the 2005-2012 era, if you didn't find a good answer in the first page with most Google searches then you probably had a very poorly worded search. Today you haven't gotten past the paid ads or the results that have nothing at all to do with what you are searching for. And telling Google that a result must have, or must NOT have a search term included is a waste of time. If an advertiser has paid Google enough you WILL see that result even if it has nothing to do with what you are looking for.
Comment by RaDeus at 14/08/2022 at 13:47 UTC
39 upvotes, 3 direct replies
I'm really getting tired of *Alphabets* search engine...
+, " and - search tricks are more suggestions than hard rules these days it seems 🤦♂️
It has immensely downgraded the experience.
Comment by pconwell at 14/08/2022 at 14:47 UTC
18 upvotes, 4 direct replies
But https://www.google.com/[1] *still* doesn't have those things. How is this aged like milk? I mean, right now, type in https://www.google.com/[2] and there is no weather, no news feeds, no links, no sponsors, no adds, no portals.
Comment by ThingsWentPoorly at 14/08/2022 at 12:45 UTC
40 upvotes, 1 direct replies
It wasn't any of those things when internet was slow, it can afford to be those things now all while loading fast. They didn't say they'd never be those things, just that they weren't, at a time when being those things meant longer loading times.
Comment by mydogsnameisbuddy at 14/08/2022 at 14:20 UTC
6 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Comment by [deleted] at 14/08/2022 at 15:05 UTC
5 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Still true if it's about their homepage. It's the results where it deviates.
Comment by roseinshadows at 14/08/2022 at 15:55 UTC
4 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Sure, Google now has ads and stuff, but they actually still have a *very* clean layout, especially compared to how the competing search engines were doing things back in the day.
I wish I had at hand a screenshot that I took in late 1990s of one of my AltaVista searches. The page was literally full of random link garbage and ad shit. Very hard to wrap my head around that stuff. Somewhere in the middle of the page, in relatively small font, was the actual bit of information that I actually needed at the time *that the search returned no results.* It was hell. I cannot emphasise that enough.
The "portal litter" here refers to how every search engine back then wanted to run a portal. They wanted you to set the page as your homepage, then let you see news and weather and things like that every time you opened a new browser window. Google actually did attempt this with a completely separate service called iGoogle[1], which they later shut down in favour of Google+ which, well, didn't fare too well. So they're not really doing portal crap that at the moment.
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IGoogle
Comment by Cavaquillo at 15/08/2022 at 02:37 UTC
5 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Google.com will buy your favorite company, adopt their product, and kill it
Comment by ThePuzzleax at 14/08/2022 at 12:56 UTC
35 upvotes, 1 direct replies
It still is. Google chrome has these things
Comment by -TheArchitect at 14/08/2022 at 13:08 UTC
9 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Google wants to know your location
Comment by Datathrash at 14/08/2022 at 14:54 UTC
3 upvotes, 1 direct replies
I still don't know what the "I'm feeling lucky" button is for.
Comment by [deleted] at 14/08/2022 at 16:42 UTC
3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Honestly Google is STILL like that. And in 1999, I cannot underestimate how big a difference a fast loading website made on those 56.6k modems
