Google Ratings and Reviews

It would be my favorite search engine BUT…

I’ll be honest, a world without Google is a world in which I don’t want to exist. I mean, you can find anything, and I mean ANYTHING on Google. It couldn’t get any more awesome than that, right? Well… It could. The fact that the Apple mobile version of Google doesn’t allow one the capability to download PDF’s/EPUB’s in order to view them, makes Google a little bit lame. If I had a dollar for every time I had to switch to Safari (🤢) & look up the same exact thing just so I could view a PDF, I’d probably be able to buy Google right now. (Maybe an exaggeration, but it’s occurred so much so that I felt very compelled to write this review) I personally rate it an overall 4.3 stars, as it has such potential to be the greatest creation since sliced bread. If only I could view my PDF’s…

Garbage

Ask google a question and it might just give you A ANSWER, not THE ANSWER, To your question. I looked up a simple question, “How long is the US” to which it tried to tell me from some random websites Information that the continental United States was 2800 Miles from East to West (which is correct), but also tried to tell me it was 2800 miles from North to South as well. After some searching I found out that it’s about 1700 miles, so why is google telling me that a website, with incorrect information is right? Shouldn’t there be a algorithm or maybe a fact checker that would make sure that your actually giving people correct information? It is absolutely unacceptable that Google, a place where people get there information from everyday, is giving people the wrong information. What other questions do I have wrong answers to because of this. It would be great if when I asked google something it didn’t tell me what might be the answer, I would rather make the mistake myself of clicking on a not so trusted website and getting wrong information there rather than google straight up lying to me.

AI RESULTS ARE THE MOST IRRELEVANT, USELESS, FORCIBLY SHOVED DOWN YOUR THROAT THING

i downloaded this app in 2014. i've been using it happily for 10 years. over the past month or so, i have been so incredibly infuriated by AI results and the absolute false illusion that is the "off" button, that i am finally deleting google and trying to find a new browser. at least duckduckgo won't shove a huge list of infodown my throat that's only 2% relevant and takes up almost the whole results page while lying to everyone "you have the option to turn this off" and giving us a switch to flip entirely for show and provide the illusion of control with no actually choice but to accept scrolling past pages of AI results that will only trip you up further. i wish i had a count on whether i reached 100 reports yet bc, for example, you can google how to find a certain setting on iphone, and the AI results will tell you to navigate to a setting that doesn't even exist. just so everyone knows, some kind souls made an "hide google AI results" chrome extension for computer

It’s not a good look

I have submitted feedback several times in the past few weeks. Absolutely no response, nothing. I sent screenshots of Google Chrome errors. It is been a nightmare on my iPad, as well as on my iPhone in the last few months. Tabs won’t close tabs don’t open, and Safari pops up and locks my browsing i’m going to Google or KrHall like it has for the past 20 years.
Incognito messages pop up every two minutes. It’s ridiculous. You have got to do something for these people who have choices in our digital life. But the choices are getting larger and more compatible. If you can’t keep up with your users and technical issues, then don’t advertise that you are the best at everything. And your feedback is just telling us to go through help. I have gone to your help section probably every day for the past year for different stuff. 60% of the time I Find My answer other times I go in circles. I know how to change my settings in every part of my Google account. So please don’t tell me to do that.
Thanks

You destroyed the app

I have used Google for incognito searches, and because it had the icon at the upper right hand corner to remove cookies I use it to remove cookies from my phone often and daily, it was working fine when I went to bed last night and this morning when I opened it, the app is totally changed / destroyed, I don’t want and I don’t need another news app. This happened to my wife’s phone this morning as well. She removed the app and I am removing the app and if Google doesn’t change Google News with all of the ads that cannot be turned off I’m removing it as well it’s very obvious google could care less about what we need. It’s all about money money money for Google. Google, you changed the Google News so we can no longer prevent News companies and organizations that we don’t want to hear from being loaded in Google News like we used to and now you’ve removed our ability to remove cookies and why would you do that, so you can load the cookies on our phones and we can’t do anything about it😡😡😡

I hate google

It’s nothing wrong about Google. It’s not like I don’t like using it. It’s just about my Google account. I was under age for my Google account and obviously they got mad and threaten to delete my account if I didn’t get a parent supervisor account and of course I did it thinking that I would get all my videos and comments and stuff like that back thing is I didn’t get it back but now I cannot post videos nor comment it makes me mad because I have 119 subscribers now I just have to stop and wait for two years until I turn 13?! that’s out rages. My parents do not care if I make Videos or comment on videos could you make this like a Settings so that parents can turn it on or off? This is annoying. I hate you google this was my dream to become a YouTuber. I was hoping I could become a YouTuber but this just hurts now I just have to restart this brew in my dreams I can’t keep getting back up and trying again. I get that it had to push me down, but why the dumbest reason to push me down

Linda Gordon and friends!

We love this quaint restaurant whether we eat outside or dine indoors.
The staff is always friendly and upbeat and happy to see you! The Food is prepared fresh and served beautifully! If we don’t eat there at least two times a summer our summer is not complete! It’s not often a quaint restaurant like this takes reservations! We enjoy how the manager makes this possible! And it is a joy just to watch Kevin , the table busser, fix up the immaculate table decorations and clean linens and keep your class filled with beverage before you even miss a drop!
Of course is very popular during the Tulip Festival so I urge you to go another time when it is not quite so busy! That way you can enjoy the lovely gardens that you see as well as the food and surroundings!

Going downhill

This is rather sad that I can get onto google and search something but when I want to see photos of said search I can’t. The fact that they removed the ability to look at images on mobile is rather stupid and needs to be changed back to the way it was. The new search URL is also rather inconvenient because I should not have to scroll and click a button in order to search for a item or photo. Those on mobile should be able to just search the item or photo from one engine as it was in the past. This app has gone downhill with many of the updates or “Bug Fixes” which being more inconvenience than help. I believe Google should remain the way it was in the past when one could search for a website, photo, or video and have the help of the little bar at the top they could click. If you read this Google fix your browser please.

Developer Response ,

Hi! Thank you for reporting this issue. Can you please submit a feedback report and tell us a little bit more about what you're experiencing so we can investigate further? Open Google App > tap top right profile picture or initial > Help & feedback > Send feedback, this will help us ensure that this gets reviewed by the right team. Thank you!

Can’t sign into account because of terrible security design

I am currently away from my home on business. Needing to access my google account for work I attempted to sign in, i was told my sign in was suspicious and I would have to confirm my sign in by using my onn google tablet. All good but it’s multiple states away. But there is a “try another way” link which then gives me the option of using my onn tablet again with no other options, but to “try another way” which brings me to a infinite loop of the same onn confirmation. I can’t call google support because it’s the weekend and there is no support I can find via chat or email to help me. I have another email associated with my google account which I have used before to confirm it’s me who is signing in. I’m probably going to be fired now. So if you need a employee with the brain power to foresee the horrible problems you can create with bad design and how to mitigate them. I will happily join your team to do your job for you.

Ruined by one pointless update

Seriously, what is this popup garbage? Now going to a website is like clicking a link in instagram, which pulls up some temporary pop up browser, it no longer feels like using an actual internet browser. You can no longer change the url, clicking on the url just copies it instead of letting you change it. Instead, to go to a new site you either have to completely go back to the home page, or open a whole new tab and clutter the tabs page every time you want to make a new search. Whoever made this change seriously needs to be fired, because they must have some serious mental disability and clearly aren’t capable of having this big of a say in a company. No mentally capable person would genuinely think that removing core features of a web browser is a good idea. Turn google back into a web browser instead of this wannabe instagram browser trash, otherwise you’re going to have barely any users.

Developer Response ,

Hi there, thanks for sharing your feedback with us! The product team is constantly working to improve the Search experience across all devices, so we'll be sure to pass this along for you.