Asn HN: Does “People Also Search For” feature on Google annoy you?

Posted by behnamoh on Thursday June 10, 2021 @02:54PM
from the self-post dept.

It's been irritating me a lot, mainly because when I open a link and then go back to the search results, I want to quickly click on another link but they get shifted down due to this "feature".

Does it also annoy you, and have you found it useful at all?

I've tried disabling it using CSS injection, but that doesn't work always.

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Re:Asn HN: Does “People Also Search For” feature on Google a... by Micoloth on Sunday June 13, 2021 @04:22AM (#27490819)

Actually no, i think it’s great.

You can argue about the UI or why it’s called “people also search for” instead of just “related entities”, but as a feature, for me it greatly enhance the discoverability aspect of browsing Google (and hence the internet), i use it all the time to explore new topics and i’ve at times found really useful info there!

So this is my opinion of course, based on my use case.

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Re:Asn HN: Does “People Also Search For” feature on Google a... by mattmanser on Monday June 14, 2021 @04:51AM (#27500602)

Yes, it's horrendous, especially the slight delay before it pops up, so you are already navigating to click a link and then it moves.

I just use the ublock thing too.

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Re:Asn HN: Does “People Also Search For” feature on Google a... by muzani on Monday June 14, 2021 @04:43AM (#27500566)

I like it. Often I don't know the name of the thing I'm searching for.

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Re:Asn HN: Does “People Also Search For” feature on Google a... by ADuckOnQuack on Friday June 11, 2021 @02:32AM (#27470005)

I recently stumbled across this custom uBlock filter from another HN commenter, if you use uBlock origin this filter completely removes that annoying “feature” on google.

google.com##div[id^="eob_"]

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