The time filter in Google Search broke a few days ago (mastodon.online)

Sometimes I wonder what testing these giant companies do for features.

A week ago Facebook's language translation broke. Results come back in the original language or a mix. How could no-one notice?

They probably also sent AI on bug hunting quest there too like they were bragging for Chrome...

Related https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49137681

I really don't understand this stuff. I've run multiple companies, this stuff would be fixed in minutes if it happened and very likely never get released.

Aren't they hiring supposedly top-tier talent and paying them top-dollar?

Surely they have a test suite and surely this would fail in that test suite.

I really don't understand how they end up doing such things.

I can only imagine that they hire a bunch of 22 year olds from prestigious schools who have never had a job pushing production code and convince themselves everything will be ok.

Something wore out from overuse, with everyone, including AI-training scrapers, filtering on “three years or older” to get non-AI output…

The advanced search on Google is still pretty hard to remember how to use if you don’t use it very regularly.

I just did a Google search with “show me search results for fonts on hacker news from the last week” and while the AI Mode results were accurate, I wouldn’t call them search results. The search results were very much not accurate (results from May).

Weird that they couldn’t or wouldn’t solve this for the creamy middle.

I get the feeling the hidden 'tools' button that makes Image Search actually useful (filter resolution, transparent PNG, animated gif etc) is going to be completely broken soon too, like they did to reverse search.

I've noticed my daily search "is Mitch McConnell dead yet?" Keeps ignoring date bounds.

I expect it'll get fixed in Tuesday after the special election date passes, and we finally mourn.