Please turn off real time search Google!
by Jonathan on 9th Dec 2009 in Google
Anyone else finding that thing bloody annoying? Could they at least make it opt-in?
I type in a query and expect to see a nice list of relevant results, but now instead I see not only a couple of adverts (which I’ve gotten used to ignoring, unless a company is stupid enough to bid on their own name, in which case I click it) but now 2 massive twitter quotes too, which pushed the search results to almost below the pagefold on my 15″ laptop screen!
Did Google not usability test this before launching it, or did they only survey the morons that spend every waking moment on twitter?
It also appears that you don’t have the option of turning it off; I checked the options, advanced search page and search settings – nothing at all about ‘real-time search’ results. I did click the pause link, but that just stopped it updating, it didn’t get rid of it.
Is this another desperate attempt by Google to keep users interested and delay the inevitable time when another search engine will arise to conquer them?
Don’t get me wrong, Google’s been a great search engine for years, but now it seems like I’m getting annoyed with them more and more frequently. Time to give Bing or Yahoo another go I think.
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Jonathan Phillips is the founder and main author here on Division by Zero. A PHP developer by trade, Jonathan spends his days building and marketing websites at his company, Phillips Internet Limited and the rest of the time coming up with ideas for websites and businesses he hasn't got time to implement.
