Re:Google's Inevitable Ruin Begins
by Deprecated on Thursday November 11, 2010 @11:45AM
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I don't know if it will bring on ruin, but I certainly found the old image search much more friendly and usable. Both this and page preview seems like "another useless feature that someone thinks improves the experience when it does nothing but show off the fact that someone can code JavaScript or some other display manipulation language." Clean and fast wins the day with me ... Duck Duck Go?
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this. the "improved" image search is terrible. very finicky and even hard to use--hardly simple.
re: ddg. regular user, but as others have pointed out already the ajax load for results is annoying (because it's slow and flashy/jerky).
Note we now have html (non-js) & lite versions at http://duckduckgo.com/html & http://duckduckgo.com/lite
excellent, just appended '/html' to the default browser search engine url.
would be great if instead of having to use specific urls that this could be set up as a preference in settings. still, i'm a happy camper :)
If you hit the front page without JS enabled it will automatically submit to the html version. And similarly, if you hit it with a textmode browser it will automatically go to the lite version.
Re:Google's Inevitable Ruin Begins
by Dylan16807 on Thursday November 11, 2010 @12:18PM
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I like the new one for the most part. Sometimes I would prefer the sizes to be listed under the image, but having the page full of images with minimal whitespace is nice; less clicking to see the results.