Google Search's time filter breaks, and nobody seems to care
The time filter in Google Search broke a few days ago
Marcin Wichary, a well-known designer and writer, recently noticed that Google Search's time filter has been broken for a few days, and he's surprised by the lack of attention. He recalls a time when such an issue would have been a major deal. Others in the fediverse confirm the problem, with some suggesting a workaround using the 'after:' operator. The conversation also touches on Google's past layoffs, with one user remarking that the company is beyond help after letting go of a key employee.
An organisation that can lay off Doantam is beyond help.
- kristopolous
I really don't understand this stuff. I've run multiple companies, this stuff would be fixed in minutes if it happened and very likely never get released.
Aren't they hiring supposedly top-tier talent and paying them top-dollar?
Surely they have a test suite and surely this would fail in that test suite.
I really don't understand how they end up doing such things.
I can only imagine that they hire a bunch of 22 year olds from prestigious schools who have never had a job pushing production code and convince themselves everything will be ok.
- vintagedave
Sometimes I wonder what testing these giant companies do for features.
A week ago Facebook's language translation broke. Results come back in the original language or a mix. How could no-one notice?
- browningstreet
The advanced search on Google is still pretty hard to remember how to use if you don’t use it very regularly.
I just did a Google search with “show me search results for fonts on hacker news from the last week” and while the AI Mode results were accurate, I wouldn’t call them search results. The search results were very much not accurate (results from May).
Weird that they couldn’t or wouldn’t solve this for the creamy middle.