@lillycoyote I remember reading online that Facebook is the place to be—that it even beats out Google as a place to work. There are former Google employees who now work for Facebook. What I mean by this is there are people who worked for Google who seem to have been considered to be top Google employees with plenty of talent who have ditched working for Google in favour of working for Facebook. I would not be surprised if this has something to do with Google’s searches becoming lower in quality. I could be wrong, but… I don’t think it is a coincidence that Facebook’s search feature seems to get better and better over time (at least in my experience).
I do not think it is an middle-age thing at all, but I understand why you would say that. While I understand where you’re coming from, I feel that my own age proves it’s not a middle-age thing. I am a 21-year-old female. I use Google every single day. The quality in the searches has gone down. As young as I may be, I’ve noticed that as well. They also seem to think flashy is in for search.
As a person who loves change, this is saying a lot. The look-and-feel seems like they are trying too hard to make it too attractive, but that is exactly what makes the layout clunky and even ugly.
The original was simple and beautiful – exactly how a search engine should be. When one searches, why should he or she be distracted by things that are irrelevant to his or her searches? This Google layout provides too much noise. They also seem to have filtered out a lot of things that used to not be filtered out, at least from the top results. This is annoying.
Another thing that shows they are trying too hard is that there are “g” Google logos that have changed. Not all the “g” logos are the same across websites anymore. I don’t mean those cute Google logos on the Google search page itself that make Google unique and fun to come back to. I mean those little “g” logos on different sites that offer you to share on Google. Too much change… and much too fast. They need to slow down. Even as a young person, I don’t want to keep up with all those useless changes over a search engine. It is like they are trying too hard to be social.