How to Turn Off Google’s Annoying New Personal Search Results [Annoyances]
[Via Lifehacker]
Yesterday Google announced they were integrating Google+ into your search results, and this morning, you may have noticed the change. The problem: It’s cluttered, not useful for the bulk of searches you do every day, and enabled by default for all results. Even if you choose to hide personal results, they’re turned back on by default with each fresh search. It’s annoying, user unfriendly, and you should turn it off. Here’s how.
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Lifehacker has a huge audience and I expect many of them agree with this post. I know I do.
I’m sure Google will recover from this but it puts another dent in their system. It reminds everyone that Google lives by satisfying the ad makers, not the users. “Google has one mission in the world: to put a relevant, compelling ad in front of its users. Search, mail, Android and every other Google activity is somehow related to this goal. The average Google user has one mission when using Google: to get the best search results on the Internet.”
Those two missions seem to be moving along different paths now.
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