That functionality -- especially in regard to the news tab -- drives me nuts. Over and over I click the top news tab forgetting I have to click the link on the side and lose the current context of my search.
At first I just assumed it was a bug since the other tabs kept the context of the search. Then after a week of the same, I looked into how to flag the issue so it could be fixed and low and behold I found it was a product feature (or non-feature).
Its such a strange UX decision that I have to assume that it is driven by revenue generation or some other metric rather than good user experience.
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That functionality -- especially in regard to the news tab -- drives me nuts. Over and over I click the top news tab forgetting I have to click the link on the side and lose the current context of my search.
At first I just assumed it was a bug since the other tabs kept the context of the search. Then after a week of the same, I looked into how to flag the issue so it could be fixed and low and behold I found it was a product feature (or non-feature).
Its such a strange UX decision that I have to assume that it is driven by revenue generation or some other metric rather than good user experience.
I've always assumed the Google News link losing state was a bug. It's a tab bar, and it used to keep state. Now it doesn't.
I suppose they had to do it this way or nobody would ever really see the Google news homepage (as if that matters).