Speaking of deteriorating Google search results, my latest peeve is when a search shows dozens of results from the same domain. There used to be the much more sensible "show more results from this domain" link. I have a hard time imagining why Google thinks the new way is better, my guess is some designers wanted to remove the link because they thought it was "cleaner".
More signs that designers, lawyers and MBAs are moving to the fore forcing engineers out of the way at Google Search.
It's a decent site, but most of the pages are barely relevant. I was searching multiple viewpoints that might explain why I would prefer one model of a scanner over another, and getting page after page from the same single source is much worse than the previous behaviour.
weird, I see 5 different domains (in incognito mode in chrome and private browsing in Firefox). The first three are all from one site, but after that there's fujitsu, amazon, lawyerist, and some kind of "snapsnapcommunity". There are more than a few decent looking reviews on the second page, too, which I'm not used to seeing in review searches...
Thanks for the detailed results. I get many more than 3, so your info inspired me to try figure out what's happening. I'm now more convinced that it's a bug rather than desired behaviour.
I first tried signing out, in case personalization was breaking things: no change. Then I tried "verbatim": no change. Then I tried changing the number of results from 100 to 10, and I see what you do: 3 from Documentsnap, 5 from various Fujitsu sites, then Amazon and Snapscancommunity.
Switch the number of results back to 100, and I'm back to getting more overwhelmed by Documentsnap. I counted again, and this time got 65 Documentsnap followed by 10 Fujitsu, then finally some variety.
If I'm searching on a programming problem, and google thinks the best two answers are both on stackoverflow, why shouldn't it show them both?
There needs to be a balance -- 10 links from stackoverflow in a row is no better than a "show more results from stackoverflow" link since it gives me no sense of what other sites contain -- but it also used to drive me crazy that the only option was either one result from each site or all results from one site. I'd rather have two or three from a single site if they seem like good answers.
"Dozens of results" from one site sounds like they're doing it very wrong sometimes, but the new way is much better in general.
As a designer, I decidedly resent that comment. Design is, by and large, supposed to be user-centric... and, obviously, this isn't a good situation for the user – so don't lump us in with the other people you blame.
More – I don't really see how design can be blamed for bad engineering management choices, likely forced by lawyers or MBAs (I also have my MBA, but I know what most MBAs are about).
More signs that designers, lawyers and MBAs are moving to the fore forcing engineers out of the way at Google Search.