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[robot_god]

This award would have been much more appropriate a year ago.  Since then, Google has devolved into an unusable pile of shit and advertisements.  Now it's Wikipedia or it's nuthin'.  And their logo has an Omega in it.

[Roger]

Mostly I was just finding any excuse to use that gif.

You are more than welcome to it my friend.

And I made this one a while ago but never had the chance to use it.
So there it goes, for absolutely no reason:

[misterqueue]

And I made this one a while ago but never had the chance to use it.
So there it goes, for absolutely no reason:

It is a perfect...Logo!

[smick]

I'm very glad that Onstad corrected Ray's glasses in the 2006 Regency strip.   The 2004 strip has been bugging me since then.

[nuero]

When the hell did Google become "unusable"? I never know what any of you jerks are talking about.

[AlohaDawg]

Don't call all of us jerks, only some of us are jerks.

I don't think Google is unusable but I do hate the ads and the fact that the first few returned links may be there not because they are closest to what I'm searching for but because their owners paid for their high placement.

[CortJstr]

This award would have been much more appropriate a year ago.  Since then, Google has devolved into an unusable pile of shit and advertisements.  Now it's Wikipedia or it's nuthin'.  And their logo has an Omega in it.

What are these ads you speak of?

[wombat]

Really, of all the ads in our ad-bombarded lives, the Google ads are the most innocuous. The paid-for links in the search results are obvious and easily ignored, and the rest of the ads I don't even really see.  I use Gmail too and I don't usually notice the ads there either.  Sometimes one catches my eye and half the time it's amusing to see how stupid the computer-generated idea of appropriateness is - if you're writing about how much you hate tomatoes you'll get ads for tomato seeds, or you'll get ads relevant to the wrong meaning of a word. But mostly they're just invisible to me.  If only the ads on TV and in print were as unobstrusive.

[AugustWest]

LEELA: Didn't you have ads in the twentieth century?

FRY: Well, sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio... and in magazines... and movies, and at ballgames, and on buses, and milk cartons, and T-shirts, and bananas, and written in the sky. But not in dreams, no sirree.

[V-Adore]

This award would have been much more appropriate a year ago.  Since then, Google has devolved into an unusable pile of shit and advertisements.  Now it's Wikipedia or it's nuthin'.  And their logo has an Omega in it.

Funny story: I know the dude who did the initial design for what eventually became the Wikipedia logo. I know this because we were eating lunch with him when he got the official royalty-check-and-legal-papers letter about it all.

He might be the closest I come to actually knowing a famous person.

[robot_god]

You guys don't know what I'm talking about?  That is Crazzzzy.

I used to use Google, search for something, and have an endless list of links with five-star information, completely relevant to what I was searching for.  It was the perfect search engine.

Nowadays, you use Google, and the first thing on the list is the page to buy whatever you're searching for on Amazon, and the rest of the list is a mess of websites riddled with pop-ups and adware.  The relevant information is sparse, I find myself having to search though pages of links to find the information I want.

Perhaps it's just me.  I used to use the internet to find information about the Kurds or Shakespeare, and now I'm using it to find stuff on specific liver enzymes or critical levels of iodine in radioactive assays.

But I read somewhere (I think it might have been Time magazine) that Google tried some kind of update, which was causing old information to come to tops of searches.  I feel like I have noticed the direct result of this problem.

But no one else has noticed that amount of useful information from Google has become more and more diluted?  Maybe I'm the one that's crazy, but maybe it is you.

[V-Adore]

To be fair, I've seen the same thing, although it's mostly because I tend to have very specific science-related searches these days. That said, I can usually still find something. Maybe it is just you?

[springbreeze]

Is Beef's use of punctuation (twice!) distressing anyone else?

[littlefallsmets]

Is Beef's use of punctuation (twice!) distressing anyone else?

I chalked it up to him being in a formal setting, being nervous, being formal, possibly even reading directly off a cue card. Which... is weird when you think about it... that I'm automatically rationalizing what's probably a typo in an online comic and just integrating that rationalization into the reality of said fictional world.

[Hobot]

Perhaps it's just me.  I used to use the internet to find information about the Kurds or Shakespeare, and now I'm using it to find stuff on specific liver enzymes or critical levels of iodine in radioactive assays.

I find Google Scholar helpful when I have specific scientific queries and I don't want to be diverted by eBay offering to sell me ethidium bromide.