I hate google instant with a passion

dilbert2

Is it just me, or is this one of the worst, if not the worst addition to an otherwise remarkable search engine structure? I even turned off Google Instant in my settings, but it has somehow managed to creep back into my searches.

What is going on here with google, why re-invent the wheel when you have an otherwise great search engine. While google have made some great additions over the years such as the search text helper, this instant is just purely annoying.

Does anybody use it. Do you like or dislike instant?

starbelgrade

What's Google instant?

Aoifey!

I thought I was the only one!!

SadieSue

I find it very distracting :pac:
Google instant kind of autocompletes and shows what you search for its annoying if you are in the middle of typing your query.

Namlub

It's annoying because it's horribly inaccurate. I typed the letter 'n' so I must be looking for the Next website or the IMDB entry for a movie starring Nicholas cage, thanks google instant!

starbelgrade

SadieSue wrote: »

I find it very distracting :pac:
Google instant kind of autocompletes and shows what you search for its annoying if you are in the middle of typing your query.

Oh that's it - I quite like it.

Most of the time it saves me a lot of typing.

drunkmonkey

I hate people who like Earthquake in Christchurch on facebook.:mad:

231 people Like this!

SadieSue

starbelgrade wrote: »

Oh that's it - I quite like it.

Most of the time it saves me a lot of typing.

I neither hate nor like it .. I just accept it.. or I'm too lazy to turn it off. :pac:

KeithM89_old

I like it except for when im searching for 'cocktails'

DJKendo

the second it first arrived I INSTANTLY knew it was shíte

HornyDevil

dilbert2 wrote: »

. . . . I even turned off Google Instant in my settings, but it has somehow managed to creep back into my searches.

I've turned it off as well, but as you say, it keeps comng back on. As does your location setting (illegally farmed by google from your ip address) on the left hand side of the screen. Both extremely annoying and totally needless google crap.

Also, when you clear all your history in settings - cookies, cache, browsing history, etc . . . then google fecking instant reactivates itself, as does the sodding location setting. Its the same in google chrome by the way.

I might give yahoo a shot again.

mikemac

I like it
But didn't know it was called google instant until this thread

I'd prefer they sort out the image search they started in 2010. The old image search was far better

starbelgrade

HornyDevil wrote: »

I might give yahoo a shot again.

If you Google "yahoo", your computer explodes.

Fact.

flynnlives

notice how they removed "rapidshare" from instant!

starbelgrade

flynnlives wrote: »

notice how they removed "rapidshare" from instant!

And cake farts.

Fizman

drunkmonkey wrote: »

I hate people who like Earthquake in Christchurch on facebook.:mad:

231 people Like this!

Expect this number to rise.

There are many more ignorant, inbred, retarded cnuts out there.

CrazyRabbit

My only problem with it is that it only shows 10 results. Can't be changed, so you have to be very accurate with your search query.

SoulTrader

SadieSue wrote: »

I find it very distracting :pac:
Google instant kind of autocompletes and shows what you search for its annoying if you are in the middle of typing your query.

starbelgrade wrote: »

Oh that's it - I quite like it.

Most of the time it saves me a lot of typing.

Not to be confused with Auto-Complete though, which is really handy.

Google Instant shows you the actual search results page as you type each letter. Annoying as hell, in my opinion. And like the OP explained, it switches itself back on every so often, even though I have already set it to off.

http://www.google.com/instant/

Metallitroll

funny i just says to meself today really should nail that autocomplete i vaguely tried to remove a long time ago spent about 2hrs.. is there not a reg edit?

you could bookmark this if you wanted http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=0 but i don't want to. it removes it anyhow

Willbbz

It's making my fingers fat.

Metallitroll

did i request a reg edit workaround for a web page? clutching at straws

SoulTrader wrote: »

Not to be confused with Auto-Complete though, which is really handy.

Google Instant shows you the actual search results page as you type each letter. Annoying as hell, in my opinion. And like the OP explained, it switches itself back on every so often, even though I have already set it to off.

http://www.google.com/instant/

too right its annoying, both of em. least now i know there's a difference n what it is

there's a number of options in that section that reset from time to time its big style retarded considering google is effectively the most used website-thing.. but the intentional autocomplete with no 'off' to begin with why's it there?! some sort of financial reason, companies getting suggestion priorities?! lets see, not used altavista in.. about 10yrs...

SoulTrader

AltaVista? Jeez, I'd forgotten all about that.

Lycos still exists too.

Metallitroll

SoulTrader wrote: »

AltaVista? Jeez, I'd forgotten all about that.

Lycos still exists too.

ugh.. its horrible.

both of em

upandcumming

Can people not concentrate on typing their query without getting totally distracted by Google Instant?

Pygmalion

HornyDevil wrote: »

As does your location setting (illegally farmed by google from your ip address).

Lol'd at this.

But you should totally take it to court, bring down every website in existence that displays ads, as well as RTE, BBC, Youtube and anywhere else that offers streaming video to certains regions but not others due to copyright agreements.

Dionysus

dilbert2 wrote: »

Is it just me, or is this one of the worst, if not the worst addition to an otherwise remarkable search engine structure? I even turned off Google Instant in my settings, but it has somehow managed to creep back into my searches.

What is going on here with google, why re-invent the wheel when you have an otherwise great search engine. While google have made some great additions over the years such as the search text helper, this instant is just purely annoying.

Does anybody use it. Do you like or dislike instant?

The worst thing Google has done in the past 18 months is remove that very useful function to search "pages from Ireland". It's absolutely infuriating. The vast majority of my searches are for local/Irish things/services/information/rights. I suspect most people are the same. Now we have to wade through a whole heap of irrelevant shít from the Google corporation just to get the Irish results. Brain dead bastards, with apologies to brain dead bastards everywhere.

SoulTrader

Dionysus wrote: »

The worst thing Google has done in the past 18 months is remove that very useful function to search "pages from Ireland". It's absolutely infuriating. The vast majority of my searches are for local/Irish things/services/information/rights. I suspect most people are the same. Now we have to wade through a whole heap of irrelevant shít from the Google corporation just to get the Irish results. Brain dead bastards, with apologies to brain dead bastards everywhere.

Does Google.ie not return Irish results by default?

Dionysus

SoulTrader wrote: »

Does Google.ie not return Irish results by default?

Nope; nothing that intelligent. For instance, I wanted to find out about how much a 'poll clerk' in the election was paid so I googled, on google.ie, "poll clerk" "election" and got this. Not a single result on that page is Irish.

I then qualified it further by adding "Ireland" and the seventh result here was the first Irish result. Instead Google.ie gave loads of results from the UK by virtue of it being called the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland".

Prior to this you just clicked 'pages from Ireland' on your main Google search page and everything was sorted. Incomprehensible. :mad:

B0X

Dionysus wrote: »

The worst thing Google has done in the past 18 months is remove that very useful function to search "pages from Ireland". It's absolutely infuriating. The vast majority of my searches are for local/Irish things/services/information/rights. I suspect most people are the same. Now we have to wade through a whole heap of irrelevant shít from the Google corporation just to get the Irish results. Brain dead bastards, with apologies to brain dead bastards everywhere.

That option is still there, they just moved it to the sidebar that appears after you search. I agree though that it should be moved back to where it was.

K-9

SoulTrader wrote: »

Does Google.ie not return Irish results by default?

I use the Firefox Google.ie page and it doesn't seem to. It still gives the pages from Ireland option on the sidebar.

Hank Scorpio

Agree with op, it doesnt really offer any benifits. If you type "why does my" it suggests "belly button smell" and "cat eat grass" :pac:

Google are pretty innovative though, so there's bound to be one or two annoying features in some of their products!

Dionysus

B0X wrote: »

That option is still there, they just moved it to the sidebar that appears after you search. I agree though that it should be moved back to where it was.

K-9 wrote: »

I use the Firefox Google.ie page and it doesn't seem to. It still gives the pages from Ireland option on the sidebar.

Yes, it comes up after you search - and then not always. Curiously, nobody in Google seems to be willing to explain why they made this change, or commit to changing it back.

Einhard

Prefer Maxwell House myself.

johnmcdnl

well if you don't like it then use one of the many other search engines out there

not hard is it or do you have to google it to make it feel real?? using yahoo just isn't the same is it??? :rolleyes:

SoulTrader wrote: »

Does Google.ie not return Irish results by default?

yes it does :pac:
some people should do a simple google search to do a bit of research before trying to complain about something :pac:

Dionysus

johnmcdnl wrote: »

yes it does :pac:
some people should do a simple google search to do a bit of research before trying to complain about something :pac:

No; it doesn't. Some people should get their facts straight before talking shíte.

Thanks OP, just turned it off.. Didn't know I could.

K-9

johnmcdnl wrote: »

well if you don't like it then use one of the many other search engines out there

not hard is it or do you have to google it to make it feel real?? using yahoo just isn't the same is it??? :rolleyes:




yes it does :pac:
some people should do a simple google search to do a bit of research before trying to complain about something :pac:

Ah right, see what you mean, it offers a pages from Ireland option rather than a search Ireland function!

As for changing, I'm on gmail and google reader as well as some spreadsheets etc. It's handy!

mconigol

I think it's great. Quit yer moanin & get with the times!

They need to push this further though and give results before you even search for them. That'd be good.

HooterSnout

drunkmonkey wrote: »

I hate people who like Earthquake in Christchurch on facebook.:mad:

231 people Like this!

I like that you hate people for liking it.

p.s. Google Instant is Pants. Thought I should at least reference the OP even in the smallest of ways.

chin_grin

I heard if you type 'google' in to Google, you'll break the internet.

Kasabian

dilbert2 wrote: »

Is it just me, or is this one of the worst, if not the worst addition to an otherwise remarkable search engine structure? I even turned off Google Instant in my settings, but it has somehow managed to creep back into my searches.

What is going on here with google, why re-invent the wheel when you have an otherwise great search engine. While google have made some great additions over the years such as the search text helper, this instant is just purely annoying.

Does anybody use it. Do you like or dislike instant?

Wow. I am so happy that I do not have to carry such burdens through life.

Corruptedmorals

I've never come across this on google? Used google 10 minutes ago...perhaps running IE8 on Vista has some benefits:D

fakearms123

Unforunately Google havent invented a search engine that connects to the human brain and can search by thought so this google instant will do in the meantime

Kimono-Girl

fakearms123 wrote: »

Unforunately Google havent invented a search engine that connects to the human brain and can search by thought

not that you know of....they know more about me then i do! :eek:



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biko

Aye, it pi$$es me off no end.
I've set it to "Off" but every time I log in it's "On" again, probably because I delete my cookies every time the browser closes.

Google, pls make this a serverside setting and not a cookie setting.

kelle

I think it's fantastic!

Sometimes you could find exactly what you're looking for before you've typed in the full word - which might have disappeared with the addition of another couple of letters.

Some people have little to complain about!

tina turner

starbelgrade wrote: »

If you Google "yahoo", your computer explodes.

Fact.

No it doesn't - Just checked

biko

Interesting, atm it's 50/50 in the poll.

Earthhorse

Yeah, I really don't like this feature. It doesn't feel right for some reason. I want to press return before I get my results and not have them dynamically updated as I go.

Alter-Ego

I cant say it bothers me that much. I barely notice it tbh.

If you want to talk about annoying, talk about youtube rebuffering a video when you go full screen. Gah! You can stop it from doing it but only while you're logged in.

mconigol

chin_grin wrote: »

I heard if you type 'google' in to Google, you'll break the internet.

It's true!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RO15huPHMMI