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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Indeed, that's not worth discussing. Han DID shoot first, and anyone who says otherwise is an idiot (including George Lucas).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.