Mind of Tim


Google Suggest must Die!
August 22, 2006, 2:42 pm
Filed under: Google, Personal, Rant, Technology

Alright, this is a little bit of a rant post. Just recently Google (in their infinate wisdom) decided to add their Google Suggest feature to every search box on their main google site. This didn’t sound like a bad idea to me, until I started using the search fields on the website (as opposed to my searchbox in Firefox). Google Suggest does not JUST suggest something for you…. it FORCES you to use their suggestions as you type! For example… i was trying to use their built in conversion calculator and by typing “3MBps to Kbps” it felt that the capitals were not needed and changed it to “3mbps to kbps”, which is COMPLETELY different (and in fact didn’t work). This is completely unacceptable behavior Google! You don’t even provide a check box in your preferences to turn it off!

So I’m going to throw this out to the internet in the hopes that SOMEONE out there knows how to turn this abomination OFF! If you do PLEASE let me know in the comments.

Thank you and good night :)