Screw You, Google

Keeping in line with today's trend writing about the things that piss me off, how about when I'm trying to search for the intersection of two things (such as "David Horvath" and "The Aquabats") and I have to sift through useless results due to advertising. (A site featuring USEFUL CONTENT on search item A will have USELESS CONTENT in the form of ads for topic B, or vice versa.)

I was searching for David Horvath because of Uglydolls. I read an obnoxiously punny an ad stating more or less "HAY GUYS, WE NOW HAS TEH UGLYDOLLS!!!1!", which made me think: what are these "Ugly Dolls", and why don't I know about them? So I googled them and found they're a series of cute/hip/ironic monster looking plushie dolls. The thing is, they looked awful familiar to artwork I've seen in costumes and album covers created for The Aquabats. Knowing The Aquabats have had many an artist work with them, I wondered if David was one of them, or if this were just another unfortunate art coincidence.

In general, when searching for information on an item, it sucks to have to sift through dozens of pages of ads that don't have any useful information. The reason I single out Google is, of all the useless results that frustrated me, the worst was a page where the only mention of "The Aquabats" was from two Google Ads links on the site. I would have assumed Google to have designed their system so that their search results don't pick up (useless) content from their ad boxes.

Besides that, and their frightening, unprecedented conglomeration of financial and technological power and information, I love my Gmail, Reader, and Blogger accounts!