Google Trends

Raised as a usability problem by 9 people on Hacker News over 14 years (2013–2026), in 6 threads.

People raised many different problems with Google Trends, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 9 complaints

Colors for the same search terms differ between thumbnail and full plot, confusing interpretation2026-06-25
Interface was pretty bad on first use; hard to figure out at first2016-06-27
Site design is cluttered and hard to use compared to older Google designs2014-03-23
Scrolling does nothing; the only way forward is a barely visible link in the corner2013-12-18
Commenter couldn't tell what the page showed or why2013-12-17
Scrolling direction is reversed from the Mac's natural scrolling setting2013-12-17
Interface is worse than Google's earlier simpler, more useful designs2013-12-17
Visuals and fake typing make the page hard to read and misleading2013-09-22
Rapidly changing keyword grid is impossible to process2013-06-12