I HATE GOOGLE

why do you keep sabotaging yourself, google, why?

I was wondering this as well. The google ‘news’ function isn’t as good as it used to be searching historical news stories. They’ve also discontinued google trips, which enabled you to have reservations and maps and guides stored in a single app.

I was wondering if they get nervous about being challenged on competition grounds if their wider products disrupt other markets too successfully.

So many things you can't do on an Android app but can do on a desktop. Eg Gmail - download all attachments to drive, Google Photos - I had this all set up nicely so I could access my husband's photos via Drive and now they stopped syncing so I can't just view 'his' photos on my phone without a load of faff, whereas on PC I can go to 'sharing partners' or w/ever.

I have moaned about Google Maps before but usually when I open the app on my phone it tells me I need location switched on to continue, but I don't, and this takes about three extra clicks to get rid of.

Lately, about ... 35% .... of the time I search for something on Google, I get a screen that just looks like this:

https://i.imgur.com/9O69RU9.png

is there any way to display the number of results for a Google Books search, or has that feature been removed for good?

it probably doesn't matter anyways, since the results are limited for no discernible reason. if you search for "tip of my tongue" without a date filter, you get 10 pages of results, but it gives you a "your search did not match any book results" prompt if you go beyond page 6. if you search for the same term but limit the date range to 2010 to 2013, you get 5 pages of results and a "did not match" prompt after page 4. and for some reason the number of results will vary depending on whether you sort them by date or relevance. I don't think it was always that bad, but maybe I just have a rosy view of the past

have you tried
https://books.google.com/advanced_book_search
?

thanks -- the advanced search does have more features, but unfortunately you still get the same limited number of results when you search for a term within the text of the books

nice , it looks like google just crippled another of its products :D:D:D:D:D

until recently the results page for google groups (google's usenet search engine) looked like this:

https://i.imgur.com/qurZwr3.jpg

each result would have the subject line and group name on one line, and beneath that would be a decent-sized snippet containing your search terms, similar to the regular google web search

in the new layout, the subject lines, group names, and snippets are crammed into a single line for each result:

https://i.imgur.com/yRD6Uy4.jpg

some of the snippets are as short as five words long and don't even include the search terms, making it difficult to determine which results are relevant without clicking through to the messages. until recently you could revert back to the "classic" (i.e. functional) layout, but that's no longer possible

it's kinda sad that I've been bumping this thread for eight years, but the hits just keep on comin'