They channel energy to the single brain cell

Someone is not paying attention...

And look, I’m not Catholic nor am I comfortable with all their traditional views, but I’m happy to see at least one church leader being savage on the topic of protecting the poor and disenfranchised. 🤷‍♀️

“In my work with the defendants I was searching for the nature of evil and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants, a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”

I found this quote from GM Gilbert in the thread—he was a psychologist who worked with and testified about Nazi leaders at the Nuremberg Trials, and…basically this 100%

No worries, shall do. And if any of my ramblings were helpful, super happy!

(Addendum: how much you care about all those things I mentioned of course depends on the user you’re targeting. More academic searchers will find a lot of that may be a bonus, or will work through differences for the quality—regular googlers will notice it a lot more). I promise I’ll stop now!)

All that said, overall I really love the product and despite a touch more cognitive effort to get used to it at first, I’ve found myself recommending it a lot at work. I hope it really takes off! 🚀

Sorry for the essay! I actually work as a product designer on Search (not at Google! 😅). So this was a super cool opportunity to really think about how rankings and results feel. Thank you for asking!

Oh and I realised Google has a very predictable ranking of sites, so I felt slightly disoriented when I used Kagi—e.g. they have a summary, then Wikipedia, then a relatively predictable set of sites for different types of queries. Kagi gives more diversity but it takes more effort to orient myself.

And there’s some tiny glitches on mobile (the images sometimes start vertically squished then pop into the proper proportions after a second).

And I would love if there was a touch more UI/UX polish—ability to more easily distinguish quick peeks and summaries at a glance, better/more consistent spacing, improved visual hierarchy of text—all the little things that improve legibility and reduce cognitive load.

The image results are not quite as specific or precise all the time (e.g. searching for ‘middle eastern women’ turned up a wider mix of ethnicities I think because of keyword stuffing in stock image site page titles), although it’s great to avoid all the random AI spam