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Sat, 11 Sep 2010
Google's Diminishing Greatness as a Search Engine
I don't like Google futzing with the search engine home page. The folks
there seem to be doing that a lot lately, and it's ticking me off! The
latest change has been especially annoying. It's some kind of instant
search that fades in while you're entering search terms. Today I got
fed up and decided to tell the folks at Google that I'm getting tired of
their shenanigans. I found their feedback page and sent them my complaint:
http://www.google.com/quality_form?q=google+feedback&hl=en&prmd=ivn
If they want to give folks a way to have a "Google Home Page" with all sorts
of "features", that's fine with me. But why can't they just stick to using
domains, sub-domains, and sub-pages, and put a link on the search home page?
It worked fine for Gmail and Google Apps. I shouldn't need to keep turning
things off. Fancy new "features" should be opt-in, not opt-out! If this
kind of "suckage" continues, I'm afraid I'll have to find another search
engine. Google is starting to lose it's greatness, and is becoming just
another crappy big business, and it makes me sad to see it happen.
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