Is it me or is Google suddenly providing shitty search results?
 

Is it me or is Google suddenly providing shitty search results?

Maybe I'm just tired but I just realized I've been searching for the answers to 2 problems for 20 minutes now which usually just takes seconds.

I want to know:

1. How to disable the little yello tooltip in Mac OS/X that pops up on so many programs (my only os/x annoyance)

2. How to make Photoshop CS4 use .jpg as the default file format to save flat files to.

Usually Google is so cool it gives me answers to plain-text questions before I finish typing them half the time but not tonight.

Hmmm, google..

suddenly? search results have been getting less and less relevant for quite some time, not really a search engine anymore, google has become more of an ad delivery system imho

Its basically when you use a mac, and do a little bit of wee in your pants... :2 cents:

true, every new rule/update they enforce fucks smaller sites and benefits huge brands.

I find it fucking annoying when i do a local search i get the uk or usa
I find it fucking annoying maps does not load

Google 5 years ago...


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Google today...


http://www.reactiongifs.com/wp-conte.../06/uhdurr.gif

Preview of Penguin 7

The worse is when they auto-complete a search... like come on nigga, I got this myself man. :mad:

Yeah they suck now days.. I have a setting on mine that I can not change. if I search for instance Tits, the top 3 are different URLS then I get a Huge list of Youtube listings and then a big list of daily motion urls.

Tried everything to change it and can not.

You can disable that

considering the accelerating rate at which garbage content is being added to the internet I think google does OK.

It does help if you understand how to search though.

utilizing all the tools they give you (time frame, discussions/images/web/etc) phrase search, etc etc etc helps too.

one needs to understand the possible other contexts of the words they are using too. concepts that cannot be really specifically worded, not such good results.

tooltips seemed pretty easy. The top several search results seemed like they were successful to me. "how to disable yellow tooltip on mac" was my first try ...

Nice one... that is what google is starting to feel like. :2 cents:

Here's an example : When working on Adobe Photoshop CS4, I want to add some text to an image. When I mouse over to the font size dialog box, a yellow tooltip pops up to tell me what I am looking at. The tooltip is small, but its still too big and covers the actual font size dialog box. This happens on a few programs so I don't think its an adobe problem, instead its a mac os/x setting that I can't find how to adjust. Frustrating!

I don't mind the auto complete function. I think it works pretty well.




True. One thing that sucks though is that if I am searching for something I wish the date of publication was as relevant as the sites themselves. Sometimes I will be reading something for a few minutes before realizing that the info is old or out of date. There should be a nice little check box beside the search button that ads dates instead of having it in the advanced / config area.

Doesn't the tooltip disappear after a second? If they stick, and you don't need tooltips, you can disable them in Photoshop. I can't remember how now, but I did it when running PS in WINE (Linux Windows 'emulator'), because the tooltips didn't disappear.

:2 cents:

There is no way to disable tooltips completely on every application, some apps have options to disable it individually, though.

You could also type this in terminal to make the delay longer, in this case it sets it to 60 seconds:
defaults write -g NSInitialToolTipDelay -int 60000

Those javascript callbacks take a bit of time. If you're located some distance from the server which is responding (for example, when I load google.com.au it's NOT in Australia, it's 300-350ms delay away) the autosuggest can get pretty lagged. You've already typed out something like "what colour is the sky" and autosuggest is still dogging along and suggesting things like...

white pages
what if
what is gangnam style
what about tonight
what causes hiccups
what colours make brown

The fix seems simple to me, their client side j/s code could simply ignore any returned suggestions that don't contain the exact phrase you've typed into the search box (which would exclude most of the above irrelevant suggestions by the time I've typed "what c") but I guess it's more complex than that.

Ive only been using google as a spell checker for awhile now.

Funny how Google gets tons of complaints with each update..... Still, Bing couldn't catch up.

The end of Google is near.

Which program and OS do you want to turn it off on?

Suddenly? Google has been garbage for years.

Not sure if you're talking about Google's so-called "Google Instant predictions", where it starts to search before you've finished typing, but if so:

https://www.google.com/preferences

A Google employee said this about it two years ago, but I'm not sure if it's the same now or not:

"It's in keeping with our vision of a unified Google search experience to make popular, useful features part of the default experience, rather than maintain different versions of Google. As Autocomplete quality has improved, we felt it was appropriate to have it always on for all of our users."