It sounds like what you're griping about is Instant, the thing that keeps trying to leap in front of you with a guess as to what you want. I find it irritating on the 10%-or-so of occasions that it's guessing wrong. But what's weird is that I've never seen anything that stopped me typing in mid-query. That's baffling.
[Disclosure: I work for Google, but not on search.] -Tim On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 4:40 PM, John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote: > If anyone on the list has any influence what-so-ever with Google, I hope > they'll pass this along to someone there who has a f****ng clue. If any such > exists anymore. > > With the changes to Google's privacy policy have also come some changes in > the way the search engine works. Google Hints, Google Auto-complete & Google > Instant are back with a vengeance, and there's no way to turn the goddamn > thing *OFF*. > > Google DOES NOT KNOW WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR and it's getting damn annoying > having it hare off in all directions instead of just waiting for me to > finish telling it what I'm looking for. Especially since when it does go off > into the wild blue yonder, it takes the cursor with it so I can no longer > finish typing my search term and have to start all over again. > > What I want in a search engine ... > > I want to type my search term into the text box, hit enter and have the > search engine look for what I typed into the text box. > > That's what Google used to do and is why I started using Google in the first > place. But Google doesn't do that any more. Is there a search engine that > does? > > I don't care if it gathers information about what I searched for & gives me > ads. I don't care if it sells the aggregated data to advertisers. I do care > if it wastes my time with a bunch of CRAP that gets in the way of actually > finding what I'm looking for. > > Which Google is doing. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
