Tell HN: Google search partial outage while rolling out new search?
Currently performing searches. Sometimes doesn't work at all. Searches now seem to display cards when it works properly instead of urls with text.
Google returned only one result and under it where it usually says what parts of your query it ignored to allow this result through it just had my entire query in full.
So basically I said "find me this" and Google went "I can't find that, here's something completely random from the internet that has nothing to do with anything"
I naively like to think they chucked a bunch of tests cases at some level when they introduced Google+ (when they threw out the old plus operator to reuse + for Google+ searches) and never recovered after that.
I'm not in Nevada.
(This is a joke offered in the spirit of humor and is in no way a criticism.)
Hacker News moment lol
[One example of the content on Google search... I searched for "dingo" and one of the responses was "When did dingoes go extinct?" with a paragraph about how dingoes went extinct in Australia 2000 years ago. What color is the sky in your world, Bard?]
Edit: using brave and chrome on an Intel Mac, same results for both.
Kind of like when your're nodding off and someone asks if you're asleep. "No," you say, and have no memory of it the next day.
Well Google has been really good for better part of its time but they have been slacking for few years. I think it's good that OpenAI rocked their boat.
Funny how good Microsoft is. Bitbucket is shit, GitLab is barely acceptable, we’ll subscribe to GitHub because it is the best in class. Google’s support is so bad that we’ll subscribe to O365. Now Bing and OpenAI.
Suddenly Microsoft is the main actor on the internet again.
Not to mention imagining having to write design docs in web based Microsoft Word.
Maybe Microsoft is the un-inflated wage expectancy.
I've progressively through my career felt more ashamed of earning so much money for the comparable little societal benefit I generate. Surely, I work on products that hundreds of millions of people use daily, they even enjoy it, but I don't think the beneficial impact of my work to society is anywhere close to what teachers, nurses, doctors, and so on provide. At some points the impact of my work on society was probably a net negative, I just generated cash for the company in detriment of society's needs.
I just can create millions and millions of US$ for a company through my labour. And for that we are well paid. I know, I've just described capitalism but some folks probably need to be more aware of it.
Perhaps it is because the value created is done by large teams of specialized people who cannot individually attribute the revolution to their work directly. Perhaps it is that the value created is power law distributed and only certain individuals in our field produce the majority of value created thus the rest legitimately believe what you described.
That is the case with chip designers and mechanical engineers as well but software engineers are paid significantly more than those other professions.
Which until recently, was relatively unshaken.
As an employer, MS also has tended to be much more understanding of personal circumstances and the likes - I know people there who took long career breaks, or had mental issues/breakdowns (sometimes quite public) that would elsewhere have been a resume generating event.
Locally Apple are also regarded as an extremely stable employer, especially at the lower levels (support, etc).
I've friends working fucking customer support jobs at apple because its stable and comfortable, when they could be making twice as much elsewhere given their skills.
I considered taking such a job a couple of years ago, after becoming thoroughly burned out of consulting/contracting and wanting some stability.
Funny thing about Apple though is the IP clauses in their contracts.
Even the guys working phone support for customers have to go through a whole paperwork process if they want to publish code they wrote in their own time online, just to ensure there's no Apple IP in it.
Thank you for the correction. I learned something about that button I never knew.
What did the button do in the years before /doodles existed. The button has existed since the early days, but not /doodles.
1.
https://fossbytes.com/what-does-the-im-feeling-lucky-button-...
https://www.pcworld.com/article/460864/google_changes_im_fee...
This is the first time in recent memory I can remember Google being broken like this.
Logging back in breaks it.
There seem to be different kinds of breakage depending on the search. For example if I search for "square roots" it give the top section that suggests other searches, and then a more results thingy at the bottom of the page, which doesn't actually load more results. The count at the top of results appears to be correct though telling me there are 446 million results for my search.
If I search for "battery packs" it looks like all I get are the kind of things that normally go in that strip near the top where it gives shopping suggestions. Instead of just being one row like normal it is row after row of them.
Kinda remarkable that this is the first time I see a Google Search outage in an entire lifetime of using it.
Intriguingly, while google.com isn't working for me, google.ca is.
They seem to like to cancel services people like, maybe Google decided to EoL search? It's not like it's been useful over the last couple of years.
Probably time to email all my Gmail account contacts and give them my post-gmail address.
[One example of the content on Google search... I searched for "dingo" and one of the responses was "When did dingoes go extinct?" with a paragraph about how dingoes went extinct in Australia 2000 years ago. What color is the sky in your world, Bard?]
"No"
They should keep google as organic search engine.
Dare I say it, but could this be related to Bard integration?
It's just throwing whatever media it has on any topic you input so it splatters the SERPs with normal results (links), images, video, news, "cards", etc... It hurts!
SMDH.
edit: not logged in (usually am not)