It frequently catches me out, but I do like the page preview you get.

What I hate is when you're typing in the search box, and realise that you typed something wrong. You use left cursor to go back and correct your error, only to find that Google noticed that what you were in the process of typing matched a popular search pause, so decided to autocomplete the text for you, even if it's not what you wanted.

So much hate...

...so much hate

:'S

No that doesn't really piss me off. Losing the best part of the day - again - to a migraine is what pisses me off.

It's good for us to get it all out!

That would probably be quite annoying as well. Hope you're doing better.

Thanks - its eased off now thanks to two doses of ibuprofen and codeine plus a maxalt melt wafer. Time to go back to the quack, maybe get something better than beta blockers to control them.

Glad to hear it. Pain sucks! I've had a terrible two days with arthritis and back pain. Far worse than any I've had before. Makes me want to just curl in a ball in the corner. None of my meds are working to ease it either.

That reeealllly annoys me, aye. Although I kinda have to concede that it's usually right, it's usually me having made a typo and I'm grateful when it catches it. But when it's wrong it still really irritates me for some reason.

As does all that inline searching, inline complete etc. I don't care what other people have searched for but I often want to repeat searches with the exact same wording. And the newer image search is horrible.

I know I can turn all this off with settings and url strings and so on but it'd be nice if they just had a 'google classic' interface with all this stuff turned off.

This! Turn all the shit off and let me know it's available. I am a big boy and capable of turning shit on if I want it on!

I also find the spell correction part very useful. My spelling is usually horrific and I appreciate the Goog's help on that. But it's not perfect and sometimes typing in IT terms or industry specific terms confuses it.

I don't mind it being on by default. I expect people who are new to google and first encountered it like this probably prefer it like this, which is probably most people who use google. It's probably much more convenient on mobile devices too, which surely makes up a significant proportion of usage now.

But yeah, a simple way to have all of it switched off would be nice. And yeah, I'd rather the corrections to my typing remain as a "did you mean" link rather than assuming I meant it (despite the fact that they're usually right).

Shit that sucks mate. Have you been given anything that helps?

I have some meds that help sometimes. Other times nothing helps.

 

I have to get cortisone shots in my back. I was supposed to get them Wednesday and they decided I should try physical therapy first.

 

The thoughts of a needle near my spine is frightening, but being in pain everyday almost makes up for it.

My dad has chronic arthritis in his back and hips not helped by 50 years of building work and lifting heavy patients as a paramedic so I kind of know what you're going through. Nothing much helps him either - tramadol can take the edge off it but the side effects aren't great! Hope you get your cortisone injections soon!

Thanks!

 

There's something to be said for having your health!

>>tramadol can take the edge off it but the side effects aren't great!

 

As demonstrated by Frankie Boyle :|

I'll tell you what really pisses me off with Google...it's that they use your IP/ISP settings to determine language rather than the settings in the browser. Having pages in German (from home) or Dutch (at work, our pipe goes out via the land of clogs-and-shitfood) is quite bothersome.

Well he claims its the constipation erhard the worst part!

 

On a more serious note, I taught a girl who has juvenile arthritis. Loads of operations and a ton of pain every day but she always had a smile for me. Absolute star.

This. I hate this. Stop fucking apologising for Google! :@



For you. It's BAD TYPISTS like you that make them implement the shitty thing, and assume the things I search for are not what I'm searching for - because 90% of the time when it tries to correct me I don't fucking want correcting, and 90% of the remaining time I've already realised and started correcting before the page has loaded, and the remaining 1% of time I could deal with fucking going back and correcting it manually. :@

Yeah, I used to get that when I was on Vodafone 3G - occasionally I'd randomly get the page in Swedish or something.

This is a perfect example of stupid "cleverness" that Google like to do - "hey, lets use our fancy location detection to set the language, we're so clever!".

But the location detection evidently sucks, and - even if it were perfect - it's still wrong to determine language based on location, especially when browsers will already provide the chosen language of the person using it.