Google has been getting on my nerves lately

[Doppel]

I closed my google plus account and still get this and I agree it is annoying. Also so is the stupid response that it is free so stop whining. Google invites criticism and this is one way to criticize it.

 

[darkswordsman17]

http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2011/08/15/a-eulogy-for-google-plus/
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/230...ete-failure-fail-hate-steve-yegee-reasons.htm

at this point the only good thing about G+ to me is their competing with facebook, thus forcing FB to innovate and compete. But nobody is leaving facebook for G+, mostly because of the network effect.

Neither of those supports your belief.

Again, saying it failed already at this point is just idiotic. Let alone referencing articles that you think support your claim that were written 2 months after it first started (that is making the same mistake you are, by saying it failed because it didn't immediately compare to Facebook in numbers), and before it opened to anyone.

They've said all along that they're going to build it slowly versus trying to implement everything at once anyway. It took Facebook like 5 years to even do half of what that guy is whining about, and a lot of the people that benefit from that stuff are multi-platform (they have apps on Facebook, iOS, Android, etc) so they'll very likely adopt + as well. Then again, I'm not entirely sure I agree with his assessment either. Who says a social media site has to be a developmental platform? A lot of people preferred Facebook before it did that. Google also has Android and they really haven't started to merge the two together much yet.

Who says they have to leave Facebook? Your entire thinking is flawed about this. I know a lot of people that use both. It seems to me that people use Facebook for friends and family, while more use + in a professional sense, kinda like LinkedIn but more casual.

 

[0roo0roo]

Yeah, OP, quit bitching. Also, uh, maybe you need to actually know that Google+ has not failed. I can only assume you were of the mindset that if it didn't kill Facebook by now then it failed which is all kinds of stupid.

hasn't it failed? the relevance of google + is kind of lacking, trying to fluff up numbers by forcing people to create dormant google+ accounts is total bs.

first they did this with youtube...and now this. they are getting a bit out of touch as they get older. remember why we liked google in the first place, they were the one search engine that wasn't forcing shit down your throat, they kept it simple, doing only what you wanted, they seem to have lost their way.

 

[BrokenVisage]

Yeah, OP, quit bitching. Also, uh, maybe you need to actually know that Google+ has not failed. I can only assume you were of the mindset that if it didn't kill Facebook by now then it failed which is all kinds of stupid.

Google+ failed. I know it, you know it, vegetable lasagna knows it!

 

[Red Squirrel]

It is annoying, but what can you do.

What annoys me the most about Google though is they had something that was great, and then kept making it suck more and more. Such as that stupid instant search crap. You can turn it off, but why is it even on by default? I don't want the page to be flickering and changing when I'm not done typing what I want to search for. If you don't login to your google account, the setting never saves properly. So you end up saying "screw it" and log in your google account. Then they track your every search under your name. Something else you have to disable. I use disable loosely here, since I'm sure it still does it in the back end and always has, but at least all your friends can't see what you search for. Oh did not know that? Yeah login and look at the search history setting. Turn it off.

Not using google+? Does not matter, they somehow know who your friends are and they're already added since you are now automatically part of google+ whether you like it or don't. I don't know if they're pulling info from facebook or what, but they have more info on you than you realize. Just for fun I checked out google+ real quick, I never actually subscribed to it, but it's there. I see a bunch of work mates and other people I know. I never added them.

 

[0roo0roo]

i dunno, i haven't used their main page for search in a long time...isn't that what the search box most browsers or address bar in chrome is for?

they have made a buncha changes for no good reason, the gmail look adding a bunch of white space for no reason was the worst. http://www.donaldwasserman.com/home/2011/6/21/googles-fathers-day-mistake.html was another one.
they are proud of their elaborate job interview process, but it seems they have filtered out common sense.

 

[Kev]

Looks like I'm not the only person who thought this G+ forcefeeding sucked:

http://lifehacker.com/5878519/the-d...results-useful-rather-than-simply-promotional

 

[M0oG0oGaiPan]

wait, what's the name of the free search engine that you created?

 

[coldmeat]

I love Google plus easy way for me to share photos nd videos. I wouldn't stay compare it to Facebook either to me my use of it and feel are completely different.

 

[Kev]

wait, what's the name of the free search engine that you created?

asked and answered

 

[darkswordsman17]

hasn't it failed? the relevance of google + is kind of lacking, trying to fluff up numbers by forcing people to create dormant google+ accounts is total bs.

first they did this with youtube...and now this. they are getting a bit out of touch as they get older. remember why we liked google in the first place, they were the one search engine that wasn't forcing shit down your throat, they kept it simple, doing only what you wanted, they seem to have lost their way.

I would agree it hasn't been very successful yet. But at the same time I'd say its too early to say it failed. I'm sure there were people saying the same thing about Android (hell they still are).

I'd also agree numbers are meaningless, in fact, that's half my argument. Why are people gauging success solely on that? I bet + has as many legitimate users as a lot of other social sites that have been going for years. And there's plenty of ways that Google can grow it (including interjecting it into search results).

This is really far too much analysis for this anyway, I'm in no way saying its been a rousing success. I'm just saying its way too early to declare + a failure.

I'm pretty indifferent to this. I tried searching for several things to see what the OP was even talking about and it didn't do it until I searched for Facebook incidentally (which brought up Zuckerberg and then I think two Google people).

If it in any way hurt their search (i.e. fullscreen pop-up, caused search to take longer, etc) then I could understand it, but I'm not seeing a big issue to be honest. I don't entirely agree about Google for simplicity, as plenty of times its specifically for maps, image search, and other features that I use search, so simplicity is not really the main motivation for me. Often its the mix (i.e. I search for a product and want to see the shopping results to compare prices as well as sites with reviews, etc).

 

[Nintendesert]

Damn, there sure are a lot of google cock gobblers in this thread. That shit they're doing IS annoying. Just because it's free doesn't mean we can't criticize it. They're making money off the emails of ours they read, the least they can do is make their data mining services not suck.

 

[ra990]

G+ is not dead. Don't be stupid people. It just started. People are slow to adopt new social networks.

 

[Jeff7]

I guess the moral of this thread is:
If you see something that's been good in the past, but is going downhill lately, shut up and don't complain. Customer feedback is useless.

 

[Rifter]

OP is nuts.

Guess what, there are hundreds of search engines and you are making a CHOICE to use google not any of the hundreds of alternatives. Therefore you are also making the CHOICE to have google+ pushed at you as it is part of google.

Why are you choosing to use something you obviously dislike when there are other options?

You are in no way being forced to use google.

Its a free country.

 

[LiuKangBakinPie]

https://ixquick.com/do/metasearch.pl

 

[Deeko]

wait, what's the name of the free search engine that you created?

Google had $10 billion in revenue in the last quarter, and $7.29 billion of that revenue came from their almost all "free" company-owned websites. They aren't providing a search engine out of the goodness of their hearts, they are making a lot of money from you, so people can probably drop the whole "you can't complain because its free" mantra.

 

[cheezy321]

I still cant comprehend why google is the one company that can do no wrong according to the tech crowd. It boggles my mind.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Google+ has failed because the only people who consistently post on it are:

1) Some dude I know who just shares videos all day long.
2) Some google employee friend I have. The others don't even use it at all.
3) My gf who hates Facebook.

There you go. I'll open G+ about 3 times a week at most, but I'll have Facebook constantly open through the day. I'm a grad student and I was in college when Facebook started. I can guarantee you that even though Facebook usage has declined for us since college, we still all use it as a primary means of social networking. Google+ made us change temporarily and check it out, but most people are back to the norm.

It has failed. Google just twists numbers and threw out random facts at their earning report, but I bet 80% of the people they say who use Google products regularly just sign in and never touch it. Just like my G+ is signed in all the time. Just because my crap autouploads to Google+ on my phone doesn't mean I use it.

 

[M0oG0oGaiPan]

Google had $10 billion in revenue in the last quarter, and $7.29 billion of that revenue came from their almost all "free" company-owned websites. They aren't providing a search engine out of the goodness of their hearts, they are making a lot of money from you, so people can probably drop the whole "you can't complain because its free" mantra.

You can complain all you want. Just don't be so whiny about it.

They might be making money off it, but it's still a free service. You guys didn't even mention how they're tweaking their search algorithm yet again to penalize pages that have a lot of ads above the fold. They're "improving" the quality of searches for you noobs and you guys just want to cry about g+.

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2012/01/page-layout-algorithm-improvement.html

 

[Deeko]

You can complain all you want. Just don't be so whiny about it.

They might be making money off it, but it's still a free service. You guys didn't even mention how they're tweaking their search algorithm yet again to penalize pages that have a lot of ads above the fold. They're "improving" the quality of searches for you noobs and you guys just want to cry about g+.

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2012/01/page-layout-algorithm-improvement.html

I believe your insults are misplaced, sir.

 

[M0oG0oGaiPan]

I believe your insults are misplaced, sir.

haha sorry, didn't mean you specifically.