On 05/25/2011 01:30 PM, Lynda wrote: > Google wants to hang crap off to the side that I don't want, and that > instant thing is now stuck in the ON position. Yahoo is so crowded with > ads that it's vomitous, and has also decided that it wants to guess what > I'm going to type, and to "help" me with it. Bing? It has all the > bloatware of Yahoo, and the evil of Google. > > Remember when Google first came out? It was so *simple* and elegant. Who > could resist? Anyone else have a suggestion? I retyped this a few times > to remove the profanity, and it's difficult to even think about it > without a few expletives. I'd love an alternative. Heck, I'd just be > happy to have the old search engine sans nanny-isms back. > If you have a google account you can still turn instant search off in the preferences (cog in the top right, search preferences). Though I haven't really noticed any problem with responsiveness of the site at all, I do rather miss the good old days when all you had was a search box and two buttons. I remember when they made what appeared to be a slight aesthetic change 5-6 years ago and people got up in arms. I did some beer mat calculations and figured out they were saving themselves Gbs of bandwidth a minute just by that small change as it seemed almost entirely based around making the landing page smaller. Mostly I justify my ongoing use of google by the fact that I'm used to phrasing my searches in language that is optimized for getting results from Google (same phrases often produce wildly different and worse results from Bing and Yahoo).
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