Is it just me or has Google become really annoying over the last few months? Google instant.. ok some people like it, but it's a pain in the ass to me. Thankfully we can switch it off (but it keeps switching itself back on). Google preview... now this really annoys me and there's no way to switch it off. Sorry to the dudes who like this stuff, and fair enough if you do.. just wish there was some way to turn these off, I really don't wanna have to move to Bing but Google is becoming bloated with useless gimmicks. Seems they are forgetting the reason why they become so popular.
They became popular because napster was the worst. Regardless I agree, many of the google features are just pointless. There still are some that are totally amazing though.
Say what?! What on this green earth did Napster have to do with anything? So the features are pointless except when they're amazing? Great comment.
Ok so switch to Bing Noone is stopping you. You'll just notice that you'll go back to Google eventually.
Sure, tell me how it's possible to turn off Google preview... it ain't. Clicking on the spyglass switches it off until you click anywhere on the SERP page.. and then it's back.
I get annoyed at google helpfully changing what I am searching for. I put pager in the search, I want results with the word pager in. Not page, not paged, PAGER. Since none of the results have that word in it, I have to go out of my way to search for "pager". I shouldn't have to do that.
Google instant is really annoying in that you turn it off and it turns itself on again later! They have to fix this!
Lucky you. My search had pager in the first result and in none of the results after that. I had to quote the word before I actually got results that matched what I was looking for.
Every options have advantage & disadvantage, its simple. But we have to think first the advantage of google new update option like google instant, google preview. If you have faster broadband internet connection its not to be seem any problem with those option. Specially google instant save 5 to 6 seconds at every search.
I haven't seen it really change what I search. Google thinks it knows what to display but it still isn't smart enough to preempt it. It was all done to cut down search time for people. For basic users it probably does do the job.
I don't mind the Google Preview. If anything, it helps users see the website they're looking for before they click on it, which is something you shouldn't worry about if you have a legitimate, well-to-do website int eh first place. Google Instant, on the other hand, is a serious pain in the behind! When I want to check the position of some of my websites in Google manually (because I don't believe in wasting money on software to do something you can easily do yourself), I change the amount of resutls displayed to 100 and sometimes it still displays 10. Other than that, I really don't have a problem with it. I haven't tried this yet, but you can try disabling Javascript in your browser to disable most of the new features in Google since they all use AJAX.
me too hate Google preview but as again said every thing has its own advantages and disadvantages, basically its good for those having high bandwidth