They used to have a great search engine, but then they replaced it with something that keeps second-guessing my search terms.
Probably the most annoying part of this for me is the blazingly stupid way they'll just drop words from your query. There have been times when I submit a phrase with 4 or 5 search terms, and most of the first page is filled with results that have 3 or 4 of the words crossed out. The results were useless garbage and I'd rather have been told there were no pages found. Along with this is the absolutely horrible decision to remove the functionality of the (+) symbol to mean "required". I don't know what social media asshats at Google made this call, but I curse them every time I have to put double quotes around a bunch of individual words just so the aforementioned query "optimizer" doesn't screw with it.
I'm pretty sure that bad design on Google's part combined with the constant abuse of the system by "SEO specialists" has turned Google Search into something inferior to what we had 10 years ago. Oh, and don't forget the malicious adwords results serving up malware for popular software titles. That's always a winner.
Why are you using any version above 2.2.1?
Came here to say exactly this.
After seeing what version 3 looked like on a friend's computer (code isn't the only thing that got bloated with crap) and reading about the hassle people were having with advertising, user-hostile admins, and finally seeing uTorrent get bought out, I'm glad I never bothered to update past 2.2.1. Some private trackers even block 3.x.
I've also heard good things about Deluge, so if I'm ever forced into updating I'll probably give that a try.
That's because in 1998, we didn't know that Simula-style objects were deeply unsound.
I'm interested in learning more about this. Would you mind elaborating, or sharing a link to an article discussing it?
Pretty interesting concept and if it works as well in the real world as the video portrays, it could be very cool to use. I was all ready to sign up for early access and talk about it with my team on Monday, until I saw your comment below that it only works on Apple devices.
In the tech and development world (especially in the trenches) Android rules, and our office is no exception. What a downer.
He died at 83; smoking probably didn't kill him so much as being old.
Considering the cause of death was end-stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, I'd guess smoking played a major part. Says Wikipedia:
Tobacco smoking is the most common cause of COPD, with a number of other factors such as air pollution and genetics playing a smaller role.
But it's a sad day regardless.
As someone who was quite vocal against Beta in the original announcement article, I've got to say that this about-face is a pleasant surprise. I don't love everything about it, but it's a far sight better than what we saw on the beta site. Glad to see the powers that be came to their senses, and were not persuaded by UX blowhards.
One bug/design issue is with the comment margins. Here's what I'm seeing in Firefox: http://i.imgur.com/YPhBVI0.png
Playing with the CSS, I think this is easier on the eyes and feels a lot less squished: http://i.imgur.com/npol1Kq.png
Which I got with this:
#commentwrap, #commentlisting {
padding-left: 1em;
}
#commentlisting {
padding-right: 1em;
}
Now how about some proper Unicode support?
Fantastic post, thank you.
This might be the first time I've thought we need a "+1, Offtopic" moderation option.
With your bare hands?!?