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by solardev 860 days ago
Meh, I hope they don't chase the VR train and instead focus on making Search actually usable again. It's soooo bad these days and actively getting worse, with ever more ads and SEO crap.
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You seem to be under the impression that Google search got bad by accident? They killed it on purpose. They killed image search on purpose too.

Google does not accidentally do things with their core products, they choose and then execute negative user experience for their own benefits.

With >150,000 employees, I think they can probably do both
I’ll believe that when they stop destroying search.

Google Cache’s death has been widely reported but the custom date filter just plain stopped rendering on my iPhone and iPad last week. There are some kinds of queries which really only function on Google with that in working order.

WoW, I thought my VPN failed (to properly traverse the GFW) when the date filter just didn’t show up on iOS.
Nope, just broke for no apparent reason after working perfectly fine for years and continues to work on the desktop. By this point in time, I've been cynical of Google for longer than I was a fan, but every nail that strikes at the heart of the Google that was cool still hurts to see.
Well, so far, they haven't really improved either one in a long time...