The State of Search (or how Google is rapidly un-nailing its once stellar UI/UX)

As I noted on Hacker News regarding the statement "Google Search pretty much nailed UI,": It's rapidly in the process of un-nailing it.

Having used DDG as my primary search engine since June 2013, I now prefer its presentation to Google's. It also makes me feel better when people call me a quack. (Close: I'm a cat. More fur, fewer feathers, far superior house-training).

I find Google's dynamic "oh, we're going to clear the page while you're refining your search terms to focus on higher relevance based on the results you're looking at now while you're typing that up" particularly egregious....

Continued at the dreddit.

#uiux #google #archive.org #usability #interface #search #fail