On: Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas

[Donald]

"Google used to give me a page of the right answers, fast, with no clutter. ... And the pages don't have the clean, sparse feel they used to."

If you disable Javascript and cookies for *.google.(tld), you'll be greeted with Google circa a few years ago: http://imgur.com/LDBLk .

[rquantz → Donald]

Will it stop replacing my technical terms with non technical synonyms, and randomly leaving out my search terms? Cause whatever they've done to the UI, it pales is comparison to those two things.

[pbhjpbhj → rquantz]

This, absolutely. It's fiddly to get Google to perform well now. Quotes everywhere and inablity to copy addresses from results ... bleurgh.

[bambax → rquantz]

Use "verbatim" under "Search tools".

[rquantz → bambax]

This is the most wonderful thing anyone has every told me.

[angryasian → rquantz]

maybe its because of my search history, but I find google gives the best technical results.. and actually its when I do a search for something that has non technical meaning the technical results come to the top.

[kamaal → Donald]

I think the percentage of users who even know what Javascript is, are negligible to an extent that they don't even matter.

And people who don't know look for a new search engine rather than learning how do disable Javascript.

[pm90 → Donald]

This is great..Thank You!