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Re:Google shares hit $1,000 after strong earnings by ChrisClark on Friday October 18, 2013 @11:38AM (#6571952)
It's all subjective but I love the new Gmail interfaces, Hangouts is much better than Talk and keeps getting better. Google+ photos is so much better than Picasa, I love how I can search for 'blue cars' in my photos and it returns them even though I've never tagged any of them.

Android has seen enormous improvements, I love stock 4.3 and Google Now.

Chrome's new 'native' apps wrapper-like thing is neat.

Even Youtube has improved a little bit, they've got a nice nifty ajax loader bar up top instead of refreshing the entire page when you go to another video.

But I guess with a different perspective, someone could argue how they don't like any of those changes. But for me, I love them.

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Re:Google shares hit $1,000 after strong earnings by patrickk on Friday October 18, 2013 @12:18PM (#6572163)
I'm using a poor internet connection (because of geography) and my experience is that the usability of Youtube has gone down dramatically.

They made a change a while back where the video will only buffer a few seconds beyond where you've paused it. Previously, you could go a few seconds into the video, pause it, and let it buffer 100% in whatever quality you needed, now I find myself having to constantly pause the video to let it load. One workaround I was forced to use is TaperMonkey Chrome addon with a script that adds a download link underneath the Youtube video in Chrome. I download the video and watch it offline in perfect quality.

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Re:Google shares hit $1,000 after strong earnings by Semaphor on Friday October 18, 2013 @12:55PM (#6572404)
YouTube Center [1] allows you to disable Dash [2]. I had the same problem and worse, before I could autoplay 720p video but with Dash that didn't work.

[1] https://github.com/YePpHa/YouTubeCenter/wiki

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Adaptive_Streaming_over...

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Re:Google shares hit $1,000 after strong earnings by lnanek2 on Friday October 18, 2013 @12:36PM (#6572288)
Ah, I was wondering why I kept leaving videos in tabs to buffer nowadays and they just never did it any more. Very sad day. ;/ Sucks for someone on a mobile connection 99% of the time like me.
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Re:Google shares hit $1,000 after strong earnings by cma on Friday October 18, 2013 @02:27PM (#6573093)
They've announced offline viewing for android recently which should help
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Re:Google shares hit $1,000 after strong earnings by jlgreco on Friday October 18, 2013 @01:54PM (#6572829)
The continuing problems with buffering on youtube have caused me to resort to youtube-dl/mplayer.
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Re:Google shares hit $1,000 after strong earnings by tedunangst on Friday October 18, 2013 @02:25PM (#6573084)
Your comment about maps is dead, fyi. No idea why. I agree.
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Re:Google shares hit $1,000 after strong earnings by jlgreco on Friday October 18, 2013 @02:38PM (#6573172)
Huuuh, curious. Maybe comments that include the string 'goo[dot]gl' are auto-killed?
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Re:Google shares hit $1,000 after strong earnings by mkr-hn on Friday October 18, 2013 @02:50PM (#6573245)
The URL updates in the new version. It's always the permalink. Much easier than having to go through a bunch of clicks to get it.
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Re:Google shares hit $1,000 after strong earnings by jlgreco on Friday October 18, 2013 @02:55PM (#6573285)
Ah, good to know; thanks.
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Re:Google shares hit $1,000 after strong earnings by skj on Friday October 18, 2013 @11:36PM (#6575228)
Unfortunately this is because ISPs throttle youtube traffic.
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Re:Google shares hit $1,000 after strong earnings by toomuchtodo on Friday October 18, 2013 @12:00PM (#6572075)
The Hangouts experience on Android is an abomination. Its why I disabled (yes, fully disabled) Hangouts and switched to Whatsapp. Its that bad.
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Re:Google shares hit $1,000 after strong earnings by gabriele on Friday October 18, 2013 @12:14PM (#6572151)
I double that. It's slow, clunky and unnecessarily heavy. That's why most of my contacts have already switched to other platforms. Talk for Android 4, that added support for multiple accounts, was just good enough.
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Re:Google shares hit $1,000 after strong earnings by Keyframe on Friday October 18, 2013 @01:13PM (#6572514)
At least you have hangouts. </wp>
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Re:Google shares hit $1,000 after strong earnings by JTon on Friday October 18, 2013 @04:09PM (#6573740)
Yes, agreed </BB10>
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