Google is Making Search Suggestions in Chrome More Helpful (techcrunch.com) 25
An anonymous reader shares a report: Google is introducing improvements to search suggestions in Chrome, the company announced today. As part of the changes, users will start to get more helpful search suggestions in Chrome based on what others are searching for, see more images for suggested searches and find search suggestions even with a poor connection.
Search suggestions are the drop-down list of suggested completions that appear before you finish typing out your query in Google. The feature generates predictions to help users save time and speed up their search. With these new updates, Google is expanding the availability of search suggestions and using them to boost inspiration. When users are signed into Chrome on desktop and open a new tab, they will now start to see suggestions in the search box related to their previous searches based on what other people are searching for.
Search suggestions are the drop-down list of suggested completions that appear before you finish typing out your query in Google. The feature generates predictions to help users save time and speed up their search. With these new updates, Google is expanding the availability of search suggestions and using them to boost inspiration. When users are signed into Chrome on desktop and open a new tab, they will now start to see suggestions in the search box related to their previous searches based on what other people are searching for.
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https://finance.yahoo.com/news... [yahoo.com]
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That link is to a story that is four years old and doesn't have any mention of the Brave browser anywhere except the title. The preview on Google shows the phrase "Privacy browser Brave was called out this weekend when users ..." but there is no longer any information in the story about the Brave browser in the article. Perhaps it was removed when the story was fact checked or edited.
If you have recent information that shows that the Brave browser is worse or less secure than the Chrome browser, please pr
More helpful? (Score:5, Insightful)
More helpful? Wouldn't they need to be helpful in the first place to be able to say that? Google used to return results matching the query string I typed but those days are long gone now.
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I know its trading one corporate overlord for another but Bing is surprisingly respectable as a search engine now
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The worst thing about google is the way its "helps" with monetized suggestions promoting crap I have no interest in. A search engine that only returned results that exactly match what I search for - and nothing else - would be like a breath of fresh air. I'd pay a monthly fee for that. If I don't find what I'm looking for I can figure out what to enter in subsequent tries.
Ever see the Seinfeld episode where Jerry wants a specific doll for a comedy bit but his friend gives him a different one because she
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Great for groupthink anyway. (Score:4, Insightful)
Apparently, Google and I have different definitions of "helpful". (sigh)
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Apparently, Google and I have different definitions of "helpful". (sigh)
Came to say exactly this - even to the point of having the same quote already in my clipboard.
As for the definition of "helpful", Google has absolutely zero interest in helping folks like us who look for obscure and/or original and/or highly technical and/or highly specific information. People who perform those kinds of searches are NOT looking for things which Google and its customers can a) easily monetize or b) slot into a neat demographic which predicts their taste and consumption habits.
Google is near
Well it's about time. (Score:2)
I was wondering how long it would take for Chrome to use DuckDuckGo as the default search engine.
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DuckDuckGo is just Bing, but with location-based ads inserted into the bottom of your search results.
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Still an improvement ... yes?
No thanks (Score:4, Insightful)
No thanks
Ad blocking? (Score:3)
Moo (Score:2)
Ungoogled Chromium [github.com] and SearXNG [github.com] are your friends. They do what they say they do, without putting your privacy up for sale.
Helpful (Score:3)
>"Google is Making Search Suggestions in Chrome More Helpful"
The most helpful result will be:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/... [mozilla.org]
The only multiplatform browser NOT based on Google's code and control.
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The only multiplatform browser NOT based on Google's code and control.
AHEM [seamonkey-project.org]
Use (Score:3)
Already their image search is useless. I want to know the source of the image, not, say, a crowd of people with similar color shirts.
And if I click find source, that is next to useless for papparazzi photos as they won't show large ones their crawler knows about for fear of lawsuits.
Useless.
They need to make search results more helpful. (Score:2)
They need to make search results more helpful. It's all just generated lists and ads at this point.
You searched for "lab grade microscopes" (Score:2)
...Did you mean "Taylor Swift Concert Tickets"?