[adamzochowski]

Google used to have own extension for chrome called "personal Blocklist", which would allow users to block specific domains from eve appearing in search results. It was great to remove instagram/LinkedIn/quora and various stack overflow clones.

But as all good things, it was killed by google

https://killedby.tech/google/personal-blocklist/

[nomel]

Google used to have this build into google, directly. It’s near immediate discontinuation made me realize that google was on a downward slope of profit vs quality results.

[xtracto]

We should compile a list of Google search features that were killed.

The other one I remember is live results from Twitter. And then "cached" link prominently showing (now it is well hiddenif available).

What other usability features has GSearch removed ?

[lakomen]

This made me realize how much I hate Google. It mutated from something good and useful to something negative. But it's representative for pretty much everything in our time. Google search on the desktop is just awful. The UI looks like it's made for mobile. Instead of search results you receive specially formatted "AI results" that are just in the way all the damn time, add nothing worthwhile.

Old search I liked actually had results where you could find out what the link target was.

And all results are Reddit or Wikipedia or 10 best things. As there's no other content on the internet. They also don't monetize any other content, because for them forums aren't content, audio isn't content, apps aren't content. They're driving this dystopia forward. And they want the made nest. In development aka new sites aren't welcome.

Google has turned into a pos company with too much power and is spying on everyone.

Their attitude towards their users and customers is hostile.

This ultra capitalism needs to stop. In fact I believe Google needs to be disowned. Not just Google. All bigger than the state tech companies, Microsoft, Meta, Apple. The profits used to better the living standards of everyone on the planet. Where is the money going, the profits? Not into the 99%'s hands.

Those hostile to the population companies need to be disowned.

[kderbyma]

Agree. I am so sick of everything turning to shit. profits....bullshit....each one of these so called profit chasing decisions were short sighted and cost them billions and billions and possibly trillions of dollars had they just continued to care about the product and what it was originally meant for