Google will you please...
Ok, Google is not working fine anymore since at leat a year. It is still the best tool for historical and consolidated research (well, you could just go for Wikipedia, sometimes...), but it is becoming always harder to find "up to date" content. As for now, I rely on twitter and feeds for the most. And I almost say "oh god" when I need to google something recent.
I lamented this problem a year ago. During 2009 Google introduced a couple of features: an option to filter depending on time, and the "Social Result". While I found the second useless to date, the first one is probably the only reason I keep using Google so much to search for recent and relevant content. So, Google, will you please insert "Past Month" and "Past half year" link in the Options section? Most of the times I have to filter specifically and I am lazy. Writing month/year every time is annoying.
Generally speaking, this "time filter" stuff is an admission of not being able to give useful content. Google is "asking the user", while we were just "asking the fucking Google" as a lifestyle for over a decade. I know, the real time web and the Twitter-like way to move informations over the Net have stunned big G. The firm has become a Really Big Company, and now it is no more able to innovate. Google can just evolve, grow, buy, and sometimes kill the things just bought. Or make Big announcements that will eventually, six months later, show a "???" product. Yes, I am speaking about Wave. In some meaning, Google is over, ladies and gentlemen. Like Microsoft in 2000. At that time Redmond seemed bigger and stronger than ever, but with the right kind of eyes you could see in advance what was going to happen. Sourceforge, Mozilla, Apache were just founded, and were giving birth to the Open Source movement. At that time they were being ignored, but after all the standard process we can all see the reality today. Thanks to Google for the amplification, for sure. But history is taking its course. As for now Google can just ride the wave (yep, the wave :D), hoping not to fall from the open source bandwagon that attracts so many developers. It is not dead as a company. As a matter of facts even Microsoft is not dead today. But it is already being replaced as the innovation driver of the market. So here we are, at the very beginning of another inevitable cycle, when the old get reaped and replaced by the young. Just the never ending old history of Nature, isn't it?
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