not offering the same services through different interfaces
...or how happiness can lead to frustration.
So, a few days ago, I had watched a video found on google and tonight, I wanted to see it again. So I fire up a few searches that I thought would lead me to it, but no matches. I can’t find it. I can’t look up my browser history, since I’m not on the same computer (and the other one is sleeping or not finding its network, whatever!). But being a merry camper as I am, not afraid of salt mines or something, so being remembered that there’s a search history into google, I look it up and after a few seconds I find my link back.
Everything is fine, then? Almost. Except that I can’t do anything without having to use local bookmarks. I use google’s notebook which offers me a note this link for my web searches — but it doesn’t appear for video searches. And anyway, it would require a browser extension — which doesn’t exist for Safari.
On the search history page, I have a list of google’s search engines, my google bookmarks labels, the list of results and a calendar. “Oh, if there are my bookmarks, maybe I would be able to add directly a result to those?” No! The only proposed way is to add a scriptlet that would open a new window (once the target opened) to add the bookmark. Why can’t I just say “add this search result to my bookmarks” ? Doesn’t this sound wrong: “Bookmark pages more easily. Drag this bookmarklet…” ? I always thought that having a “click here” link on a web page just meant something was wrong with the UI, and the bookmarklet references just does sound the same to me.
And is there somehow a “Add features, but don’t integrate them” rule somewhere?
Gargl…