{"id":12799,"date":"2011-07-21T12:55:49","date_gmt":"2011-07-21T16:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=12799"},"modified":"2011-07-21T12:55:49","modified_gmt":"2011-07-21T16:55:49","slug":"blinding-me-with-computer-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=12799","title":{"rendered":"Blinding Me With Marketing Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/2011\/07\/19\/conjunction-juncture\/'>defective yeti<\/a> has me thinking about Google...<\/p>\n<p>Way back when, in the before time, in the long long ago, I switched from using AltaVista to Google because, by comparison, AltaVista felt really cluttered and gimmicky and busy. AltaVista gave decent results, but I always got the feeling that I get when reading small local newspapers: there's some info in there, but really it's just a vehicle for crappy ads. On the other hand, Google's interface was almost as simple as could be: two buttons and a text box; the \"Do You Feel Lucky?\" button was the only clutter. And, when you clicked the Search button, Google just spit out a page of links and short excerpts. Nothing else. <\/p>\n<p>So that means I am growing pretty dissatisfied with today's busy, cluttered, popup\/animated, \"no, I think I'll search for what I think you wanted to search for\", ad platform, internet application host, portal, social media thingy, Google. Now, I get that Google has to eat, too; so I can tolerate the ads. It's all the other crap I wish they'd take away. When I go to Google.com, I'm there to search, not to envelop myself in a world of online productivity and social networking. I don't want every movement of my mouse to cause something to pop up or glow or change color. I don't want to recommend anything to other people. I don't want to see an unreadable preview of the page. I just want to click a link and see if it has the information what I wanted.<\/p>\n<p>Get off my lawn, etc..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>defective yeti has me thinking about Google... Way back when, in the before time, in the long long ago, I switched from using AltaVista to Google because, by comparison, AltaVista felt really cluttered and gimmicky and busy. AltaVista gave decent results, but I always got the feeling that I get when reading small local newspapers: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}