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Tell HN: Google Color Picker showing wildly wrong results

2 pointsby nthitzover 2 years ago
It seems to just be putting in a random color when you search for a hex code https://www.google.com/search?q=%23ff0000

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nthitzover 2 years ago
here&#x27;s the link in a comment so you don&#x27;t have to copy and paste <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=%23ff0000" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=%23ff0000</a>
metadatover 2 years ago
Nice bug find.<p>It was only a few weeks ago they unbroke Google Timers.<p>They must still not have integration tests for these search extension features.<p>Googlers ostensibly can&#x27;t get promo for fixing this class of problem, due to not &quot;wide enough impact across Google Orgs&quot;. There&#x27;s no money for G in useful micro tools. Meanwhile, it&#x27;s broken for the living, breathing human being end users. Just goes to show how messed up the incentive structure is within Google.<p>If things continue as they have been, G is on track to repeat the mistakes and fate of IBM.