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Re:Google's new logos are bad by roryokane on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @12:39AM (#24915298)
The piece of shifting layout that annoys me the most in Google search results is the “People also search for” widget. It appears if you visit a search result and then hit the Back button. I usually want to click the search result below the one I just visited, but by the time I’ve moved the mouse to that search result, the Google search page has inserted the “People also search for” widget in its place.

Google Search’s addition of that dynamically-appearing widget two years ago was the primary reason I switched to DuckDuckGo.

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Re:Google's new logos are bad by jiggawatts on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @12:43AM (#24915316)
Some guy at Google is patting himself on the back for a Job Well Done because the customer engagement metrics are much higher than anticipated.
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Re:Google's new logos are bad by GoblinSlayer on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @03:01AM (#24916037)
Selling clicks is literally their business.
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Re:Google's new logos are bad by jiggawatts on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @04:43AM (#24916602)
They sell deliberate clicks, but measure all clicks, including accidental.
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Re:Google's new logos are bad by wingworks on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @02:48AM (#24915985)
I've added a filter to ublock which blocks it from happening, it's amazing. I use `www.google.*##div[jscontroller]:if(h4:has-text(People also search for))`
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Re:Google's new logos are bad by soulofmischief on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @07:22AM (#24917497)
Maybe we should start a petition? Because I am about to do the same.

The least they can do is push it to a second column on desktop and to the bottom on mobile.

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Re:Google's new logos are bad by sgerenser on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @06:35PM (#24924944)
I’ve literally never seen this. Just tried to make it happen on my iPad with a few random searches and couldn’t. Maybe my adblocker (AdGuard set to block “annoyances”) has saved me this pain without even realizing it.
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Re:Google's new logos are bad by soulofmischief on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @09:18PM (#24926053)
Happens to me with an adblocker. Are you disabling JS?
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Re:Google's new logos are bad by sgerenser on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @09:49PM (#24926225)
Never mind, I am getting the “people also searched for” box for some queries. But it appears to load immediately, I don’t see anything load then move later.
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Re:Google's new logos are bad by roryokane on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @11:33AM (#24919936)
See also this comment thread about the same issue: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24914766
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Re:Google's new logos are bad by account42 on Thursday October 29, 2020 @09:54AM (#24930490)
Huh I never notice that one but then I always use middle click to open results in a new tab if there is a chance that I want to look at more than one.
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