And.... Google screws up yet another service

[Pulsar]

So, everyone who uses google shopping already knows they neutered it by including only companies that pay to be included.

Now they've removed the ability to place an upper and lower price limit during a search.

Very nice. Next their going to remove the 'feature' where we can type in what product we're searching for.

First forcing people into google+, then neutering the shopping search, now removing the ability to set an upper limit on price.

At this rate, they'll catch up to microsoft soon in the 'stupid moves' department.

Edit: I found it! They neutered this one too. Just like amazon, you can only find it if you click into a specific 'department'. I'd love to hear the reasoning behind that.

 

[halik]

their shopping search was idiotic from the start, sorting by price would essentially make the results worthless.

 

[AnonymouseUser]

I thought this was going to be about them neutering the Image Search.

Ah well, I've been cutting back on Google use for a while now anyway, so it's just one more service to cut back on.

 

[Red Storm]

You mean this option?

I did not have to go into any specific area, it was right there after I searched for something.

Screw up not found.

 

[Ns1]

yeah they killed picasa for me too with their G+ integration.

 

[QueBert]

You mean this option?

I did not have to go into any specific area, it was right there after I searched for something.

Screw up not found.

there's a 50/50 chance a person won't have the same search page as you. Google likes to "test" new versions on random users. At my house it looks like yours, at my work the bar's along the top horizontal and there's different search options. The dynamite thing is you have zero option for picking the other if you don't like the one you have.

 

[phucheneh]

Google shopping has always been just, like, a google search with worse results.

Google as a whole is pretty much ruined [edit: Google the search engine, that is]. Their search engine has gotten absurd to the point where 90% of my searches turn up 'oh, I'm sorry, I think you meant [insert completely different words]' results. Not the corrections ('Did you mean [blank]?'), but this whole hidden synonym engine that was apparently compiled by some migrant workers that they handed a really shitty Thesaurus to.

It's sad that such an AWESOME framework is ruined by a desire to cater to stupidity.

However, I still have to say I love Google (as a company) for other reasons. Like, where would we be if they hadn't given Apple the giant Android slap upside their fucking faces?

Yeah, they're in it for the money like everyone else, but I'm thankful we still have a company like Google in the tech scene. I think they offer, to some degree, genuine 'innovation' without the consumer rape, patent trolling, ect of most other corporations.

They just need to quit it with the desire to Facebookerize (I'm-a gonna patent that word there) everything to compete with iStuff.

 

[KeithP]

Now they've removed the ability to place an upper and lower price limit during a search.

Incorrect.

Edit: I found it! They neutered this one too. Just like amazon, you can only find it if you click into a specific 'department'. I'd love to hear the reasoning behind that.

Still incorrect.

-KeithP

 

[Red Storm]

there's a 50/50 chance a person won't have the same search page as you. Google likes to "test" new versions on random users. At my house it looks like yours, at my work the bar's along the top horizontal and there's different search options. The dynamite thing is you have zero option for picking the other if you don't like the one you have.

Link?

 

[Jeff7]

their shopping search was idiotic from the start, sorting by price would essentially make the results worthless.

This one is irritating. Some kind of "price:relevance ratio" sort of thing might have worked. And with Google's programming and computational capabilities, I'm sure they could have made it work.

 

[DesiPower]

I stopped using Google earlier this year, now I Bing!

 

[Kev]

oh i thought this thread was going to be about how they raped youtube's interface