Some tech I loved is getting worse and I’m mad

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Some tech I loved is getting worse and I'm mad

Time is supposed to make technology better. The idea is simple: With more time, humans make newer, better technology and our lives improve. Except for when the opposite happens.

Google is a good example of this. I've been harping on the matter for a while now. Google mobile search, in case you haven't used it lately, is bad. It often returns bloated garbage that looks like a cross between new Yahoo and original Bing.

Here's how it butchered a search query for "Metallica" this morning:

Remember when that interface was simpler, and easier to use, and didn't try to do literally every possible thing for every possible user at once?

It's not just Google's mobile search interface that makes me want to claw my eyes out and learn how to talk to trees. Everyone now knows that Mountain View has effectively given up on trying to distinguish ads from organic results (Does the company view them as interchangeable? Probably?). TechCrunch's Natasha Lomas covered the company's recent search result design changes today, calling them "user-hostile," going on to summarize the choices as its "latest dark pattern."

Google's latest user-hostile design change makes ads and search results look identical

Google, once fanatical about super-clean, fast results, is now trying to help you way too much on mobile and fool you on Chrome.

Chrome itself kinda sucks, and is getting worse. But we all know that. Of course, that all this is shaking out around the same time that the company's founders left is, you know, not shocking.

I'd also throw TweetDeck into the mix. It's garbage-slow and lags and sucks RAM. Twitter has effectively decided that its power users are idiots who don't deserve good code. Oh, and Twitter is dep



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