Whats happened to Google?

[Robin]

What's with the "new" namby-pamby GUI?

Where's the tree?

Where's the damn information!

Half the screen is now wasted in white space and fancy headings, jeez
the average mind only needs a single line to get the drift... unless
that mind is a moronic mind!
<please fix bug that won't display a <new para> here>
Well Pissed off
Robin Pain

 

[John Larkin]

On 2 Dec 2004 00:38:45 -0800, "Robin" <robin.pain@tesco.net> wrote:

What's with the "new" namby-pamby GUI?

Where's the tree?

Where's the damn information!

Half the screen is now wasted in white space and fancy headings, jeez
the average mind only needs a single line to get the drift... unless
that mind is a moronic mind!
please fix bug that won't display a <new para> here
Well Pissed off
Robin Pain

Do you meant this?

http://www.google.com/

Has it changed? It's good enough that the new Microsoft search engine
copied it directly.

http://search.msn.com/


"Microsoft: your innovation, our money."

John

 

[thomas]

Google Groups that is.

They don't even (usually) display the YEAR of a post, like we're not
supposed to care?! You have to click SHOW OPTIONS to see it.


"Robin" <robin.pain@tesco.net> wrote in message
news:1101976725.206955.171710@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...

What's with the "new" namby-pamby GUI?

Where's the tree?

Where's the damn information!

Half the screen is now wasted in white space and fancy headings, jeez
the average mind only needs a single line to get the drift... unless
that mind is a moronic mind!
please fix bug that won't display a <new para> here
Well Pissed off
Robin Pain

 

[Mike Monett]

"Robin" <robin.pain@tesco.net> wrote in message news:<1101976725.206955.171710@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>...

What's with the "new" namby-pamby GUI?

Where's the tree?

Where's the damn information!

Half the screen is now wasted in white space and fancy headings, jeez
the average mind only needs a single line to get the drift... unless
that mind is a moronic mind!
please fix bug that won't display a <new para> here
Well Pissed off
Robin Pain

Yes, the PHB's have finally taken over and essentially ruined google
groups. Fortunately the uk version still works for the time being:

http://groups.google.co.uk/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&group=sci.electronics.design

Slashdot has a thread on this. Many complaints.

Mike

 

[Mike Monett]

thomas wrote:

the 'old' groups.google.com is still availabe if you type it in

Ha! Apparently the beta test is over - the old url works again as of noon
EST:

http://groups.google.com/groups?lr=&safe=off&group=sci.electronics.design

This went to the beta version earlier this morning, which is what started
this thread.

Maybe the Slashdot comments had something to do with it, or perhaps a huge
number of complaints in the individual newsgroups. But I don't see anyone at
google sifting through tens of thousands of newsgroups to check for comments.

Just hope they quit "improving" it

Regards,

Mike Monett

 

[Nicholas O. Lindan]

"Robin" <robin.pain@tesco.net> wrote

What's with the "new" namby-pamby GUI?

Use the advanced search page:

http://www.google.com/advanced_search?&num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8

I mean, now, who here is among the hoi polloi?
--
Nicholas O. Lindan, Cleveland, Ohio
Consulting Engineer: Electronics; Informatics; Photonics.
Remove spaces etc. to reply: n o lindan at net com dot com
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[Kim Clay]

Maybe the Slashdot comments had something to do with it, or perhaps a huge
number of complaints in the individual newsgroups. But I don't see anyone at
google sifting through tens of thousands of newsgroups to check for comments.

I bet they check their e-mail & found LOTS this morning. They had my
e-mail by 0730 that started with "Your new "beta" groups is a mess".

I see its back to the old style now - Yeaaaaaaa

Kim

 

[Pooh Bear]

Robin wrote:

What's with the "new" namby-pamby GUI?

Where's the tree?

Where's the damn information!

Half the screen is now wasted in white space and fancy headings, jeez
the average mind only needs a single line to get the drift... unless
that mind is a moronic mind!
please fix bug that won't display a <new para> here
Well Pissed off
Robin Pain

It's truly awful. I happened to use it yesterday due to something not
turning up in my work email.

Even worse - when I finally tracked down the thread I wanted and pasted
the text into wordpad - all the formatting was lost and it was
unprintable - well.... unusable to read.


Graham