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Preview Google's New Search Results Page
ubermiester writes "Ars Technica demonstrates how to copy and paste a bit of JavaScript to preview a facelifted Google. Ars points out that 'the changes are minimal, but they give some insight into Google's plans.'" I thought we already knew those: world domination.
Apparently the first step towards world domination is to move the category tabs to the left of the search results. Ooh, I'm scared too.
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I've read the article on the Ars Technica forum, and all the comments there. I'm inclined to think this is a nice change, but honestly, all they did was move the top links to a bar on the left. Its nice, and will probably look slightly better on my widescreen laptop, but its such a small change, I doubt many people will notice once it goes live.
Ummm, they've been experimenting with this for about two months now. I get a results page in this layout about once a week or so.
This guy's the limit!
it's good in that you know if it's worth looking at the other categories without clicking on anything.
I, for one, welcome our new column re-arranging overlords.
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Very interesting... and somewhat disappointing. I was expecting to see a completely new interface, not the addition of a bar on the left side of the screen. Don't get me wrong, this is useful and a bit attractive.
/. communities response to this....I'm dying to know!
However, what I'd really be interested in is whether or not someone outside of Google could have come up with this code themselves? Or, is it an inside job? Or perhaps it is an "unofficial" preview release.
What is the
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For those who made the change and want the old way back, it's as simple as clearing the google.com PREF cookie in your browser. If you don't know how to clear a single cookie, then clear all of them and it will be included.
I guess google must've detected that it was widescreen and changed the layout so that it i smore efficient in using the viewing window when fullscreened.
Thanks /. it was amazing to see some of the text move left. Don't forget to keep us posted about other exciting changes such as Google's got a new coke machine or whatever. Us hackers get off on that, it's in our blood.
spoonerize "magic trackpad"
You could go to digg and find out what Steve Jobs had for breakfast.
I bet it was really cool and trendy, and worked way better than what Bill Gates had for breakfast.
The next Cmdr Taco duplicate will be ready soon, but subscribers can beat the rush and see it early!
This proves that the real brains behind Google is The Brain
Pinky's job is to come up with mispellings of words so you get somewhat meaningful "Did You Mean:" suggestions!
"Mentally confused and prone to wandering."
Indeed, that's not worth discussing. Han DID shoot first, and anyone who says otherwise is an idiot (including George Lucas).
Circumcision is child abuse.
Yup, I've seen it many times, too. No Digg.
I wonder when Google will change their HTML to be compliant with the W3C recommendations? It is amazing that they are so far behind other companies with regard to markup quality.
Standards Schmandards
When you click on, say, "Images" on the left of the search results, you see the images, but then the sidebar is gone.... You should be able to click on Images, then Groups, then back to Web without it taking away your sidebar. It breaks the paradigm. But perhaps that's due for this being a beta thing.
"hey, could you pass me a paper towel? er.. I mean... DEPLOY ABSORBTION PANEL!"
Thank you for mentioning this. I thought Google was going nuts, but I never saw it again, so I thought I was going nuts.
At least if I'm going nuts, it's going to manifest itself in some other, more interesting (or at least entertaining) way.
End of lesson. You may press the button.
I finally arrived at the same conclusion, but untila fter hours of soul searching.
Google or Taliban?
Google or Taliban?
Google or Taliban?
But once I realized the Taliban would shoot me rather than consider moving the tabs, the choice became easy.
up up down down left right left right B A Try it. It works.
world domination? I think Google is more into moon domination
The best minds in the world, all of whom have been hire by Google, came up with that new UI. I'm simply blown away by how good it is. It needs to be reported in every single media outlet on the planet because it's so earth shattering. You've really gotta hand it to Google - it makes the efforts of mere mortals look paltry by comparison. I don't know why /. even has news stories about other companies.
"The White House is not an intelligence-gathering agency," -- Scott McClellan, Whitehouse spokesman.
MS and Yahoo better do something equally innovative to catch up. Google's really leading the pack now!
It appears that the green bars beside the other categories don't actually portray the number of search results for the other categories. They remain the same from search to search, even when a given search returns no results.
Earlier today I noticed some other irregularities in google's search results. They seem to be a bit manipulative in the results they present. I've noted them in my blog: http://www.achievo.org/blog/archives/34-Google-sta rting-to-think-for-me.html
Google has changed a lot in its interface over the past year. Has anyone else had the following problem?:
I'm living in one country but want to see results from another (in my case, I'm in Germany but I want to see English results). In the good old days, google had a radiobutton that let you choose between "results from the web" and "results in German" (or, rather, "Deutsche Ergebnisse"). But not anymore. Now, even if I explicitly type "www.google.com" in my address bar (firefox, in English, with locale set to US), the stupid server hands me back a google.de redirect. The radiobutton is gone. So is the point in the preferences where I could, back in the day, decide that I wanted results in all languages. It's been replaced by a list of checkboxes where I can, in principle say I only want results in English. But, heavens, I want results in German AND English. Okay, so I check "English" and "German".
Guess what I get? A preordered list with all the German results first (since I'm on google.de. What else could I want anyway?), then the English ones. Like, first the result from de.wikipedia.org, while the English one is nowhere to be seen.
Hey Google! Some people don't live in their homecountries. Yet they fucking want to see results in their own language. It's completely beyond me how a company that has fostered globalisation so much could possibly exclude all ex-pats from their interface.
I've now changed to yahoo (which still has the "results from the web" button). Let's see how long until they will abandon it, too.
So, Han doesnt shoot first, Han shoots solo.
Clear your cookies. In Fx go to Tools - Options, I think, in Fx 1.5 Tools-Clear Private Data.
Sweet,
The person whomanages PREF=ID=fb7740f107311e46 can now look at all of the search terms entered by slash dot readers.
A back door by the Department of Justice to capture Google search queries?
comp.lang.ja...ogrammer
microsoft.pu...x.avalon
microsoft.pu...indowsxp
alt.personals.spanking
soc.sexuality.spanking
aus.comms.mobile
comp.os.linux.announce
comp.lang.functional
comp.editors
comp.lang.scheme.c
Remember Turbo10.com? And how much it's useless? Well, there is another search engine that I actually find myself useing. It's called clusty.com. There are 2 really cool features of this search engine. First, it clusters stuff. Like, let's say you are searching linux desktop. You go to google and search, you get all kinds of stuff...pretty useful I agree. However, you search clusty, and the results are broken down by subject...operating system, kernel...desktop. Very cool for research.
The second cool feature is that in the search result itself, you can preview the page. Just click the magnafying glass.
Use clusty 20% of the time, it's cool!
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