Its suggestions are often quite good, and they make the system run more smoothly
.. and occasionally, they instead have direct implications of perception-filtering. Altering my query because you couldn’t match a term, and not putting this fact in glaring huge red print, leads me to think there are actual results here, rather than a selection of semi-irrelevance. Automatically changing my search terms is similar in effect—no, I don’t care about ‘pick’, I’m searching for ‘gpick’!.
This is worse than mere suggestions ;)
I can notice these things, but I also wonder whether the Google Glass users would have their availability-heuristic become even more skewed by these kinds of misleading behaviours. I wonder whether mine is.
.. and occasionally, they instead have direct implications of perception-filtering. Altering my query because you couldn’t match a term, and not putting this fact in glaring huge red print, leads me to think there are actual results here, rather than a selection of semi-irrelevance. Automatically changing my search terms is similar in effect—no, I don’t care about ‘pick’, I’m searching for ‘gpick’!.
This is worse than mere suggestions ;)
I can notice these things, but I also wonder whether the Google Glass users would have their availability-heuristic become even more skewed by these kinds of misleading behaviours. I wonder whether mine is.