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by freehunter 2250 days ago
The worst part is depending on your search all the different options can be in different order or sometimes not even show up. My UI pet peeve is inconsistency and Google has it in spades.
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Kuraj 2250 days ago
This feature is so annoying. It messes with my muscle memory (somehow after all these years I still expect Images to be second) and I end up clicking the wrong thing
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tantalor 2250 days ago
It makes sense to change rank of the search mode options depending on your query. Some examples...

[supreme court] -> "News"

[make face mask at home] -> "Videos"

[ps4] -> "Shopping"

[cute cat] -> "Images"

Google and Bing have the exact same behavior for these queries.

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maxwell 2250 days ago
Personally I prefer how DDG keeps "All, Images, Videos, News, Maps" static and then shows additional tabs when relevant, e.g. "Shopping" or "Meanings".

Jumbling up the tabs on each search was one of the UI-related reasons that I gave up on GSearch years ago (outside of the occasional !g, which now usually feels like being redirected to AliExpress).

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