Does google have the worst site usability?

[loopyal]

Google tells us to make our sites better for our readers, which we are doing, but do you think google has horrible site usabilty?

For example, in webmaster tools, I'm always being confused by their changes and the way they just drop things.

In the HTML suggestions area, they don't tell you when the data was last updated, so the only way to tell is to download the files and check.

In the URL removals, they used to show you the URLs they had removed. Now that is gone and the only way you can check is to try adding one.

We don't have any URL parameters, so any parameters are as a result of some other site tacking on stuff at the end of our URL and there is no way to tell them that we don't have any parameters, so ignore them all.

Also, they add new parameters they find on the end of the list, so the only way to check is to click through to the end of the list.

[KaneJamison]

"Do as we say, not as we do..."

No site is perfect, and Google is far from it. But kudos to them for testing much of the time and backing off of poor designs, like they did a few weeks ago with the extremely flawed nav menu they were testing: http://searchengineland.com/google-moves-away-from-large-navigation-drop-down-menu-111057

[loopyal]

yes, that was horrible.

If they tested it first, it must have been with a bunch of goth geeks