Ask HN: Google lost his mind?

1 points by mingodad ↗ HN
Today after long time without using google (mainly using duckduckgo) I was not sure if I was getting good results from duckduckgo so I went to google, my netbook (Atom 4 cores @1.66GHZ no gpu drivers Ubuntu 14.04 that's still usable most of the time) went frozen, I'm using chromium then I closed all tabs except a blank one (computer usable again) opened the devtools and chromium-task-manager then reloaded google again to see what was going on, the computer became again almost frozen, then I took notes shown bellow, navigate away from google to hackernews (computer usable again).

It seems that google is applying this: Do what I say, don't do what I do.

Far away was a time when google was fast and light, some billions dollars later it seems they forgot it's origins.

The notes:

Chromium: Version 64.0.3282.167 (Official Build) Built on Ubuntu , running on Ubuntu 14.04 (64-bit)

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Before navigate to google I have this:

CPU LOAD: 6%

Task Manager - chromlum

  Task 	Memory footprint	Memory	CPU	Network	Process ID

  Browser	83.112K	83.11 2K	8.0	0	24007

  GPU Process	71.640K	71.640K	1.0	0	24152

  Tab: New Tab	22.368K	22.368K	0.0	0	24173

  Extension: uBlock	53.396K	53.396K	1.0	0	24213

  Extension: The Great Suspender	20.480K	20.480K	0.0	0	24227

  Extension: Privacy Badger	26.540K	26.540K	0.0	0	24240

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Now navigating to google I have this:

  Request: https://www.google.com

  Redirects to: https://www.google.es
29 Requests 600KB Finish 6.81s DomContentLoaded 2.61s Load 5.83s

Task Manager - Chromlum

  Task 	Memory footprint	Memory	CPU	Network	Process ID

  Browser	84,996K	84,996K	14.8	0	24007

  GPU Process	73,588K	73,588K	99.8	0	25528

  Utility: Patch Service	9,376K	9,376K	0.0	0	25062

  Tab: Developer Tools - https://www.goog 43,784K 43,784K 1.0 0 25173

  Tab: Google	48,568K	48,568K	6.9	0	25218

  Extension: uBlock	52,772K	52,772K	1.0	0	24213

  Extension: The Great Suspender	20,596K	20,596K	0.0	0	24227

  Extension: Privacy Badger	24,940K	24,940K	0.0	0	2	4240
CPU LOAD: 33%

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Going away from google:

Request: https://news.ycombinator.com

CPU LOAD: 6%

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