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Raised as a usability problem by 11 people on Hacker News over 18 years (2009–2026), in 11 threads.
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No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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Google results lead to useless pages, forcing users to bounce backUnreviewed
20092026- Bad search forces users to page through results manually to find anything useful2019-12-08
- Removing paging leaves users unable to reach results beyond the first page2013-06-05
- Google results lead to useless pages, forcing users to bounce back2009-11-09
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 11 complaints
- Shows zero results before the results have loaded2026-06-07
- Wastes many minutes hunting through ad-filled articles for the answer2025-07-24
- Hype-driven content drowns out substantive material, making good information hard to find2025-05-31
- Finding a simple answer requires clicking through multiple ad-ridden, SEO-optimized websites2025-05-27
- Shows meaningless garbage code snippets for non-programming queries, cluttering results2022-12-08
- Top search results are outdated blog copies instead of official docs2020-06-07
- Bad search forces users to page through results manually to find anything useful2019-12-08
- Searching for real-world items returns software results because names collide2014-09-12
- Links go through slow meta-refresh redirects that briefly show a page before moving on2013-08-14
- Removing paging leaves users unable to reach results beyond the first page2013-06-05
- Google results lead to useless pages, forcing users to bounce back2009-11-09