> that horrible 'other people search' popup in Google that I always end clicking because it appears after the exact milliseconds it takes me to move the cursor to the next entry
god I hate that thing so much!
In my mind, with no evidence to back this up, I like to imagine they A/B tested various versions of their code and the system automatically decided that version xyz made people use the feature more, so that's the one it went with. But the only reason that was the case was version xyz took a little longer to answer queries or load the client side JS, and the result is exactly what you described.
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity" and all that. It's not that I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt here but I just really like to imagine that they're not even aware of how frustrating this is.
god I hate that thing so much! In my mind, with no evidence to back this up, I like to imagine they A/B tested various versions of their code and the system automatically decided that version xyz made people use the feature more, so that's the one it went with. But the only reason that was the case was version xyz took a little longer to answer queries or load the client side JS, and the result is exactly what you described.
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity" and all that. It's not that I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt here but I just really like to imagine that they're not even aware of how frustrating this is.