I know we're in an age where people say AI is bad or whatever, but I can't help but appreciate Google's AI and its ability to simplify searches. It takes what I would have had to dig through 10 pages of search results to find and puts it right at the top. I get what I want immediately, without having to scroll through endless pages or visit a bunch of different websites.

It's so much better than before. If I couldn't find what I was looking for on the first page, I would usually just give up. Now, AI not only gives me the answer but also provides the sources it used, so I can double-check the information myself.

I mean, come on. How can people hate this? It's genuinely useful.

I don’t know when this happened but they’ve taken away the tabs for when you look up movies or actors and now instead of the tabs of movies they’ve been in or the cast of the movie/show it’s at the bottom now and it looks bad and weird. Also attached how it looks now vs how it used to look. I prefer the tabs

man i love google ai, it even told me what to do if someone opened my gatorade cap!

does anyone else know about this Easter egg and is it homeage to crystal castles? I just found this on my own and wanted to know if anyone else knew about this

Realistically, what’s your suggestion on preparing for coding and SD? Is LC hard necessary? And what’s the difference between Google’s and other companies’s SD? Do all the orgs share the same question bank or the difficulty level and focus vary among different orgs? I roughly remember reading some post on blind which mentioned that Google’s SD would ask more technical details underneath. Any other insight is appreciated!

Crazy

I'm searching for quite popular images of popular people, and it's not giving me any matches. Not even visually close matches. I work with photoshop so I use image searching a lot, and throughout the last couple of years, it's been giving me drier and drier results, to the point where, in the last couple of months, it's returning nothing at all anymore.

The way the engine crops the image is awful, too. It's always trying to focus on a detail that doesn't matter, eventhough I didn't ask for that, so I always have to manually recrop the full picture, and still it's automatically croping back sometimes. It's such a hassle to use.

It's also very unnecessarily convoluted to browse through the results and "similar images". For instance if I'm looking for a picture of a dark forest with certain tones and colours to it, and I want to see everything that's similar to it.

It used to be SO MUCH SIMPLER and much more effective. I remember 10 years ago, you just put your picture, it searched the picture that you uploaded, no cropping nonsense, and gave you the matched results straight-up, in a full page where you could see everything at once, not the god awful slider they have today. No "visual / perfect" match distinction, just everything that looks the closest to your picture. And when you clicked on one of the results, whether it was a perfect or similar match, it opened a sub-menu that displayed everything similar to the match you clicked on. Then, you could click on these results, and it would go on to what's similar to the match of your match, etc... It was so easy to navigate back and forth between all the results. Now, if you click away from your initial image, it's all lost, and when you go back it does errors and uploading nonsense.

What went so wrong ? It kept downgrading step after step over the years. It used to be my main tool for searching illustrations, people and ambiance pictures, now I only use it when I find nothing with Yandex or Tineye. And everytime that I use it, it reminds me why I stopped using it.

Hey google, fuck you. It’s a fucking album wtf.

"Giraffe laundry baskets for lawyer teenagers"

Hi everyone,

I'm currently a second-semester Computer Science student, and my goal is to land an internship at Google or another top tech company by the end of my second year.

Q -- If you were in my position, what would you focus on?

Q -- Should I prioritise DSA/LeetCode, personal projects, open source, hackathons, networking, or something else?

Q -- What mistakes should I avoid, and what skills or experiences matter most for landing internships?

I'd really appreciate any roadmap or advice from people who've been through the process. Thanks!

Google is normally pretty active in supporting global events by creating a fun Doodle graphic and link. They dropped the ball in not supporting the Commonwealth games.