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Google Revamps Search Engine To Include New Cards and Tags As It Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary (cnbc.com)
As Google celebrates its 20th anniversary, it announced a range of new updates to its namesake search engine. The Mountain View company announced it was drawing on its artificial intelligence capabilities to provide smart videos in Google search with a new "Featured Videos" card. It will start to play videos in results, one after another -- but only show the short parts of videos that are relevant to your search. Google, the parent company of which is Alphabet, also introduced an activity card which would show pages a user has visited, at the top of search results. Users will have the ability to delete items from this activity card. The company also introduced "Collections," through which it will let users save content from the activity card to their collections. Google will then use things you've saved, and your history, in order to recommend new content for your collections. CNBC adds: Additionally Google is enhancing topics for certain things you search for. If you search for "pug," for example, you'll see a card where you can find little things to tap, like names, training details and how to buy or adopt a pug. Google will make sure that these cards at the top of search results will stay fresh based on what people publish online, Google vice president of product management Nick Fox said.
Google is also redesigning its feed for recommended content, which appears in places like the Google app or the homescreen of Google's Pixel devices. It will now be called "Discover," and it will show videos, among other things, for the first time. [...] Google is bringing the Discover feed to the Google homepage on all mobile browsers in the next few weeks Moxley said. The Discover feed will remember preferences for the language you like different types of content to be in. For example, if you like recipes in Spanish, it will only show pages with Spanish-language recipes, but if you like your news in English, news articles will be in English.
Google's image search is getting enhancements. There will be tags that show products, and other kinds of images, like stock images and do-it-yourself tutorials, so you'll be able find the sort of thing you're looking for faster. Google Images will get its new look on desktop computers starting this Thursday.
Google is also redesigning its feed for recommended content, which appears in places like the Google app or the homescreen of Google's Pixel devices. It will now be called "Discover," and it will show videos, among other things, for the first time. [...] Google is bringing the Discover feed to the Google homepage on all mobile browsers in the next few weeks Moxley said. The Discover feed will remember preferences for the language you like different types of content to be in. For example, if you like recipes in Spanish, it will only show pages with Spanish-language recipes, but if you like your news in English, news articles will be in English.
Google's image search is getting enhancements. There will be tags that show products, and other kinds of images, like stock images and do-it-yourself tutorials, so you'll be able find the sort of thing you're looking for faster. Google Images will get its new look on desktop computers starting this Thursday.
So they can just happen to "accidentally" throw in that part of the re-design that skews the search results like they were mentioning last week.
Use https://www.duckduckgo.com and get some privacy!
The new design sounds like something straight from idiocracy.
Is there a box I can check that selects a "don't show me any conservative bullshit and insanity"?
Oh haha, that's on by default, I forgot. Cheers, mates.
So I deleted my Google account last week when I could no longer stop the new Gmail redesign.
Today I switch to Duckduckgo as a primary search engine. Just would really like a way to completely switch from infinite scroll to pagination.
Anything else? I never have used Chrome. My phone is just about as de-googled as you can get.
The millennial that doesn't like most of the stuff designed for millennials.
Fuck Google!
did google learn nothing from yahoo?
The problem with slashdot is that most of its users were bullied and stuffed into lockers as kids!
And their search engine is less relevant their news is poorly curated and their mail interface is still broken. I have given up hoping. Oh and their signature OS is a privacy nightmare.
YouTube has become so utterly useless, since all it shows me, is things that I have already watched and that are so close to what I have watched that they are not worth watching. Most of them clearly coming from that one video I didn't care for... to an extend that I accidentally click on it *again*, because forgot it, and fell for it, just like the last time. ... backing up its faulty hypothesis that I must like that video and would like to watch in a bazillion times, again and again. ... is still a riddle to me.
I has become impossible, to find anything NEW that relates to my interests. (The less knows by me, the better. Duh.)
How the YT development staff doesn't realize this huge flaw in their algorithms... for *years*
Startpage.com gives you google but with privacy.
Also duckduckgo as mentioned (ninja'd) :)
I don't use Google much (mostly Duck Duck Go), nor am I a subscriber, or use Chrome, or anything like that. So I'm a little confused about what a "card" is. Any explanations appreciated.
I turned off Google Now because it would not stop spamming me with news stories, no matter how many different ways I tried to turn it off. When I want news, I will open the Newsstand App. I wanted Google Now to show me cards like the weather, my upcoming appointments, travel times, things like that, but the news stories made the signal:ratio noise unbearable, so I just turned it all off.
So, instead of making it more useful now, they're going to add videos, and what's worse, make those videos autoplay? Nofuckingthankyou.
Did that just say that "featured" video results will autoplay a short clip? And Google doesn't think that millions of users won't be pissed off about it? I expect my search results low-bandwidth until I click on a particular result. Because maybe ALL the results are irrelevant to my need. But the featured videos will autoplay anyway? And I should want that because?
Looks like all the pink hair dye and hormone treatments finally rotted their brains.
Thank god they're finally self-immolating, because it was starting to look like they were too powerful for anyone up to and including the US and EU governments to get under control.
Must be when they did the IPO. It was what, 92-93 when Alta Vista, then the search king, decided to take money to push your company to the top of the results. That ended up with nearly everyone, myself included, scrambling for a new search engine. Google won out, as history shows.
So this is why Chrome 69+ automatically logs people into Chrome as soon as it sniffs out a valid G* session. They simply need to link everything they know or may discover about the user in order to power the upcoming set of (bad) features.
In its continuing drive for quarterly profits, Google continues to move beyond the functions of a search engine to a direct provider of the content being searched for. Google's hope is that content publishers will continue to accept the decreasing share of traffic being directed to their sites as Google monetizes the content creator's content directly for itself.
Google is counting on several factors to avoid any significant backlash or call for further regulation. First, only Google itself has the data to show it is sending an ever-increasing share of total traffic to websites appearing in the rankings. Since a content creator's page rankings vary over time across thousands or more of keywords and hundreds or thousands of pages no single content creator is able to assess total market share and aggregate traffic loss across keywords or related set of keywords to new Google search features.
Second...
Sorry, but showing continuous snippets that are deemed "relevant" to your search sounds to me like a special version of Hades.
And not the funny cartoony kind.
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Anyone else remember when Google used to have products that were better than the competition?
When Gmail was new it was massively superior to all contemporary webmail systems. Whereas the new "Fisher Price Gmail" is a design disaster. Gmail's spam filter absolutely refuses to filter certain major spammers - presumably because they paid Goog to be above the law. Quality of Google's search results has been declining for years. Android security has always been a bad joke, by design.
Maps is still awesome - so I'm waiting for Google to ruin that one next.
Seriously, Big Brother Google, what's up? Did you fire all your talented engineers & designers for being insufficiently authoritarian? Or did they just Walk Away once you publicly decided to be evil?
I really don't want my search results turned into an amusement park. Count me out, if there be any power left in User CSS.
They are dead to make. Please God let th at company die.
Google was even so kind as to show an upcoming events list for the years 2019-2021, the list was filled with nothing but spam that Google had automatically put into my calendar without my consent and provided no clear way to remove. The worst part being that I never use Google Calendar, EVER!
-==- Buy a Mac and leave me alone!
1. All available option are bloated products
2. Some new player enters the game, with a no-nonsense product that does one thing and does it well.
3. People rush to the new, simple, product. The company swims into a sea of dollars.
4. Doing a simple task efficiently doesn't optimize profit.
5. Product management and business developers generate feature creep
6. The company milks this testoterone-drugged cow as long as it can
7. Go back to square 1.
Self immolation- thatâ(TM)s funny! Soon the black hole sucking our privacy will collapse