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Jenny Agutter posted:an extremely cool feature of google earth was the ability to pull a GPS track off a Garmin device and import it straight in so you could see your little hike on the terrain. Google's abandonment of their sort of maximalist approach to design has been really sad, every service you can watch good useful features just drop away for seemingly no reason i open google earth now and it's just WHOOPS SORRY with a big pixelated image of america zoomed out
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i still get a kick out of the google earth vr app where you get to fly also i think it’s pretty funny how google maps basically destroyed the overpriced rural service of “here’s a picture of your house taken from a plane or helicopter”
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lol. forgot about those.
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whenever i think of those vanity pictures it’s always a picture of someone’s boring rear end ranch house sitting on a quarter acre that some farmer carved out of their cornfield
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President Beep posted:whenever i think of those vanity pictures it’s always a picture of someone’s boring rear end ranch house sitting on a quarter acre that some farmer carved out of their cornfield that’s maybe accurate. but we’d get ads mailed to us every year and i lived in the hills our neighbour a half mile up the road had one and was very proud of it lol
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i grew up in southern michigan where that scenario is very common
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SO DEMANDING posted:bing maps is good for their birdseye view (photos taken from low flying airplanes), something which google maps used to have but then ditched in favor of their gloopy dogshit looking 3D crap (though sometimes I've seen embedded gmaps things that still have it, old api version or some poo poo?) if your computer is lovely enough you get that version
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Jenny Agutter posted:an extremely cool feature of google earth was the ability to pull a GPS track off a Garmin device and import it straight in so you could see your little hike on the terrain. Google's abandonment of their sort of maximalist approach to design has been really sad, every service you can watch good useful features just drop away for seemingly no reason it seems like there's been an industry-wide trend the last few years of eliminating features and options, seemingly in an attempt to ape apple's "minimalist" design. i miss the days where if software wasn't working the way you wanted there was some option buried in the preferences that would fix it
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HappyHippo posted:it seems like there's been an industry-wide trend the last few years of eliminating features and options, seemingly in an attempt to ape apple's "minimalist" design. i miss the days where if software wasn't working the way you wanted there was some option buried in the preferences that would fix it now that most "settings" interfaces have basic semantic search (e.g. you can search for "wallpaper" in macos and it brings you to the right setting), i think software could do this better than it was in 1996. bring back a little complexity in software
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HappyHippo posted:it seems like there's been an industry-wide trend the last few years of eliminating features and options, seemingly in an attempt to ape apple's "minimalist" design. i miss the days where if software wasn't working the way you wanted there was some option buried in the preferences that would fix it i scratch this itch by having to deal with enterprise software at work, op
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My favorite part of Google search is how you can add "-" to filter your search but then it just adds those terms to the advertising results. So if you add -"funko pop" to an image search the first thing you will see is a row of ads for funko pops.
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what are funko pops?
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Displeased Moo Cow posted:what are funko pops? not much what's up with you pops?
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Komojo posted:My favorite part of Google search is how you can add "-" to filter your search but then it just adds those terms to the advertising results. So if you add -"funko pop" to an image search the first thing you will see is a row of ads for funko pops. nice self-own admitting that you see ads
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hate how multiple options are now compressed into a single option so it's just a big take it or leave it with no granularity microsoft is the worst for this but google and apple aren't far behind
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is there any stupid open source project where I can build my own search engine? one that I just add a list of sites I like or a blog I once read or cool YouTube channels too and it will periodically crawl them and I can search for stuff I vaguely remember without any seo / nazi bullshit showing up?
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vodkat posted:is there any stupid open source project where I can build my own search engine? one that I just add a list of sites I like or a blog I once read or cool YouTube channels too and it will periodically crawl them and I can search for stuff I vaguely remember without any seo / nazi bullshit showing up? this is called rss but there are plenty of tutorials on writing your own web crawlers too
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Displeased Moo Cow posted:what are funko pops? turn ur monitor off
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i thought they were a brand of sucker until i googled and realized that they're those dolls that all look identical and nerds love to plaster their desks with
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beaten to death many times already, but funko pops continue to amaze with just how *lazy* they all look. like amiibo are about equally dumb but each one looks like 10x more effort expended.
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I typed 'rear end" into google search and so far my disappointment is immeasurable.
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Some ask jeeves level poo poo
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rear end jeeves
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mediaphage posted:this is called rss not really tho as rss isn’t going to capture some blog post from 5 years ago and I can already write a web crawler. kinda want an off the shelf type deal that runs a local host webpage with easy functionality.
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Displeased Moo Cow posted:what are funko pops? beanie babies v2
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vodkat posted:not really tho as rss isn’t going to capture some blog post from 5 years ago and I can already write a web crawler. kinda want an off the shelf type deal that runs a local host webpage with easy functionality. some places will have rss feeds going back to the beginning, and it's a good thing to have going forward but i get your point. the last time i looked into this there really isn't anything that's good without a fair bit of effort for you to put into it. there's searx, which does meta stuff: https://github.com/searx/searx and yacy, which might be more what you want. it's probably more useful in its p2p/distributed modes but i assume that's something you can configure optionally: https://yacy.net
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Sweevo posted:beanie babies v2 in the beforetimes i walked to the grocery store one day and saw a minivan with like 30 beanie babies stuffed up in the crevices of the windshield
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all dusty and sun faded and whatnot? oooh, bonus points for nicotine stains.
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President Beep posted:all dusty and sun faded and whatnot? tbh they all looked new??? i think the kind of person who still has those probably has a collection of hundreds kept in rubbermaid boxes with moisture absorbers and rotates them out seasonally
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Komojo posted:My favorite part of Google search is how you can add "-" to filter your search but then it just adds those terms to the advertising results. So if you add -"funko pop" to an image search the first thing you will see is a row of ads for funko pops. but why are you seeing ads?
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President Beep posted:turn ur monitor off 
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HappyHippo posted:it seems like there's been an industry-wide trend the last few years of eliminating features and options, seemingly in an attempt to ape apple's "minimalist" design. i miss the days where if software wasn't working the way you wanted there was some option buried in the preferences that would fix it The reality is that was software that was over developed with hidden untested and undocumented features. Took too long to reach market and cost more than it should have to develop. It’s also the idea of whether a developers time should be of value, ie like a service, rather than a product. It is usually preferable to have a faster moving product than slower, break-everything drops. Of course there are many who believe in the exact opposite.
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Wild EEPROM posted:hate how multiple options are now compressed into a single option so it's just a big take it or leave it with no granularity wait, you're saying microsoft is worse than apple at providing granular options? did you get this backwards?
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in 2020 2/3 of all google searches resulted in no clicks on results:
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mediaphage posted:in 2020 2/3 of all google searches resulted in no clicks on results: i think this is more because goog has been moving more and more content into the search results page itself, not because search gives bad results.
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rotor posted:i think this is more because goog has been moving more and more content into the search results page itself, not because search gives bad results. i think it's a combination of things, but i wasn't necessarily suggesting one thing or the other with it. i do think an issue it shows is that google is basically profiting off of the work of content producers who often won't get click through traffic as a result
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mediaphage posted:i do think an issue it shows is that google is basically profiting off of the work of content producers who often won't get click through traffic as a result it absolutely shows this, esp wrt wikipedia
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google promotes blog spam in their search results bc they're filled with adsense ads hth
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it's both. if google found the thing you wanted they display it on the search page directly, and if they didn't they just show a giant wall of spam. in neither case is it useful to click on any of the links.
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