Google Begins Testing Extension Manifest V3 in Chrome Canary

Re:Google Begins Testing Extension Manifest V3 in Chrome Canary by pmlnr on Monday November 11, 2019 @07:30AM (#21504284)

> over the last 12 months

More like since 2014.

I use google search for one thing only these days: product search, when I'm trying to find a local dealer for a product.

For everything else, duckduckgo, which, to be completely honest, is a lot more like the old google from the early 2000s, than the current google.

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Re:Google Begins Testing Extension Manifest V3 in Chrome Canary by rusk on Monday November 11, 2019 @08:04AM (#21504491)

> More like since 2014

I do remember remarking to somebody around this time that google search had become something of a glorified grep.

You could still get things though. What I meant in this comment is that it has gotten even worse to the point that its almost unusable. It really does remind me of Microsoft of the 00’s.

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Re:Google Begins Testing Extension Manifest V3 in Chrome Canary by pmlnr on Monday November 11, 2019 @09:41AM (#21505163)

I think 2014 was the big change into "AI first" for Google. I remember Translate working fine in 2014 in China with the offline pack, and the offline pack was ~220MB. In 2016, the offline pack was ~30MB and nobody understood the translations over there.

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