Re:Oberon - The Oberlooked Jewel
by rbanffy on Sunday April 22, 2012 @11:53AM
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Not really cruft, but a very simple way to measure how relevant was that result for the search you did.
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Simple and valuable to Google, perhaps, but a major sign that they're no longer doing what's best for users. It breaks the web in at least two ways: makes it slower and hides the true links. I hate that they do this. Nothing has been more destructive of the warm feeling I used to have toward Google. I still use them out of habit but eventually irritation and the rise of some credible competitor will coincide and cause me to switch.
> a major sign that they're no longer doing what's best for users.
How exactly improving the relevance of the returned results is not the best for their users?
> makes it slower
257 ms here. Not that much compared to the 2 seconds the actual server took to start returning the data.
> hides the true links
The proper URL is the green line under the title. Here it says "www.ics.uci.edu/~franz/Site/pubs-pdf/BC03.pdf".
> The proper URL is the green line under the title.
If the URL is short enough that works fine, but if it's longer you can't copy the URL from there, because Google will insert an ellipsis in the middle of the long URL. For example, an article I was searching for just now shows up on the green line as ssdi.di.fct.unl.pt/masters/mcl/content/.../Robinson-CL2000.pdf. Can't copy that, and can't get the original URL from the right-click either!