Are You As Satisfied With The Google Experience As You Used To Be?

What ads? I guess I have trained myself enough to ignore them. The ads that do bother me are the animated bulls*** on weather.com and other sites. I really do not notice any ads on Google.
Thus, those paying for ads on Google, are obviously wasting a lot of money. Kind of like TV commercials we fast forward through or ignore. Or changing the radio station when a commercial comes on. Advertising really sucks. Fewer and fewer people pay attention to it, or respond to it. Best ads are in-store ads, usually the buy one get one free today.

No, I hate it. It is slower and allowing more pop ups than I ever had before. I would love to get rid of it, but there is nowehere to contact to find out how to delete it.

I agree that advertising is annoying and because of my reaction to it I would not dream of allowing it on our website, except as an additional section promoting related products marketed by other companies on a reciprocal agreement. These adverts would only be viewed on request.

Like so many others say here, my issue with Google is not ads, which I’ve long since learned to completely tune out; my issue is that the quality of search results is plummeting. As if all the emphasis on ‘fresh’ and ‘local’, exchanging my keywords with synonyms and all that crap isn’t bad enough, they seem to have removed the ability to use quotes to find exact matches. And that’s not even mentioning the ‘social’ garbage, which I find downright offensive.

I was always a little suspicious of Google but years ago there was no question they were the best. Now they are among the worst… if I really want to find something, I go to Bing. Not that Bing is a whole lot better. Oh how I miss the old days…

“The noise factor can detract from immersive experiences like Facebook and Twitter. Neither one is curated or edited, so users have to filter through ads, banter and irrelevant posts to find useful or entertaining threads or connections,” said Eric Feinberg, Foresee senior director of mobile, media and entertainment.

Eric Feinberg hit the head of the nail. Stop blaming advertising!

The problem is that Google (among others) have lost focus on their core competence – being a seach engine with search results. They have spent so much time cramming all kinds of social s***, pictures, reviews, picture reviews, likes, plusses and a whole range of other irrelevant nonsense into the search results that they have forgotten the search results. In their attempt to make money by being everything to everybody, they have become almost nothing to those who are looking for search results.

Part of the dissatisfaction is the privacy intrusion and well how the Tech companies lied, then lied again then gave us shiny blimps in the sky to distract us and then admitted but blamed the government.

Do no evil?

The ad intrusion is another factor, loosing more space on the organic page and well just about anything is becoming paid.

People have spoken and smaller search engines are growing rapidly.

At this rate we will get back to the days when no one knew search engines and social networks

I have tried to contact google and youtube regarding a post of a video being removed but no mater how any time I get in touch no one will reply so no I am very dissatisfied with google and youtube.

No, I am no longer happy with Google as my prime search. I’m sick and tired of hearing how Google is making an effort to improve “MY” experience by changing how they list things. And then the first things I see are that “Target” and other retailers are supposedly offering what I am looking for! When did Target and others start offering EVERYTHING— no matter what the subject is??? Machine parts? concrete molds? Vacuum forming equipment? I think Google— and probably others are selling their souls for the dollars, and really could care less about the consumer or searcher. By screwing up the key-word searching, they are forcing businesses to use Google’s ADWORDS PPC since many of these companies have been knocked out of the ORGANIC searches— which is what I thought Google was all for.

I now am using and trying other search engines— just like I now watch HBO, SHOWTIME, and other non-commercial airing networks whenever possible. I’m sick of being force-fed what the powers that be, (Google) “think” I want. I know what I want!

John McKenzie Panagos

As a small independent website operator, Google has become an unreliable business partner and we are doing everything we can to develop alternative sources for organic search, with some success, mainly focusing on social media. While Google should be commended for trying to curb spam sites, its frequent algorithm changes are so broad and sweeping they have hurt mostly small business sites that aren’t part of large corporate networks. Google’s over-reliance on backlinks as a measure of authority without regard to content quality has allowed many sites to “game the system” by creating “link bait.” These sites post stories that are largely false but attract links from other sites because of their sensational claims, usually based on anonymous sources. This penalizes sites that try to report actual news and promote journalistic standards on the web. We stopped using Google adsense long ago, because their rates are no longer competitive and they place too many restrictions on content. Google is still a large part of what we do, because of their search dominance, but it’s no longer the focus of our efforts to build traffic.

Google would have even less searches/use if we (my self included) didn’t use them because of habit.

Bottom line with all of googles changes them have killed my small online business. I’ve no real choice now except to do the eBay thing which sucks in a different way !

I agree with those who say that Google is not the company it once was. They have little regard for the consumer and are only interested in how much more money they can squeeze out of any of their products, including search. Too bad the general public doesn’t get it yet.

To be honest, I hate Google now. It’s become pretty obvious that they everything they do is geared towards getting more income from their ads, rather than delivering quality results.

Interesting infographic, if a bit superfluous. I don’t think Google’s going anywhere from the Most Popular internet source. Anyway, I like some of the changes they’ve made of late, particularly with Google+, which should, hopefully, go onto being a popular social media tool. And by popular I mean people will actually use it.