Preview Google's New Search Results Page 191
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.
World Domination? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:World Domination? (Score:1, Redundant)
It's amazing isn't it! (Score:4, Funny)
The second step is to break globalisation (Score:4, Insightful)
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 It's been replaced by a list of checkboxes where I can, in principle say I only want results in English.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.
Re:The second step is to break globalisation (Score:3)
You can also set your preferred language for search results in the Preferences page.
Re:The second step is to break globalisation (Score:3)
So just block all cookies from google.com - you'll never have any problems again. You should be blocking the cookies anyway - if you don't, google stores your search history on their server, which isn't exactly my idea of privacy
Re:The second step is to break globalisation (Score:2)
Spy on your queries (Score:2, Informative)
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
Re:World Domination? (Score:2)
Re:Serious question (Score:2)
To be honest... (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:To be honest... (Score:5, Funny)
you kidding? this is google we're talking about, GOOGLE!!
It's a revolutionary new approach to search, it's the next best thing, it's marvellous, it's hip cool and groovy, sheesh.. 'no-one will notice' indeed...
Re:To be honest... (Score:1)
I'm not crazy! (Score:3, Funny)
At least if I'm going nuts, it's going to manifest itself in some other, more interesting (or at least entertaining) way.
Re:To be honest... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:To be honest... (Score:2)
Re:To be honest... (Score:2)
Re:To be honest... (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:To be honest... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:To be honest... (Score:2)
I did in fact notice it -- it shifts the search results up and to the right slightly -- but other than being slightly annoyed that my unchanging Google had changed, didn't think much of it. I'm not quite sure how this is the big deal that it is being made out to be. It gives a bit more room for Google to link related services, but otherwise . . . meh.
Re:To be honest... (Score:2)
Remember the google viewer [google.com]? that was exceptionally cool, but has now dissappeared, google suggest was even cooler, but still hasn't made it to the homepage.
It would be nice if google supported these projects instead of just saying "oh hey, we did this cool thing too, but don't get too attached, we're going to pull the feature in a few months without any warning. It's called free market research, chumps"...
ah well.
Re:To be honest... (Score:2)
That's actually too charitable. They're not even doing market research. Google employees are encouraged to spend time on their own pet projects.. It doesn't seem to be very hard to get your project added to the public site, especially if it's a search engine enhancement. So every time somebody in Google has a bright idea, it gets handed off to us to play with. Which is nice if you like trying out new tech, but also kind of unprofessional, since you never know whet
AND! (Score:2)
Re:To be honest... (Score:2)
Re:To be honest... (Score:2)
I think they're really trying to free up more vertical space for search results. Why? Because the search results have been getting crowded out by other things at the top (not just sponsored links, but links to local searches, maps, etc.) and bottom of the screen. Moving the categories to the side, making the Google logo smaller (it's now 135 by 50 instead of 150 by 55) and reducing the amount of whitespace at the margins all let them squeeze more into the vertical space.
They may also be able to play with
Still no web standards... (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Still no web standards... (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Still no web standards... (Score:3, Informative)
Some quick math:
I analyzed the source of the result page for "w3c recommendations". After looking at the page in the validator, I decided the following things were missing:
Two <img> tag src= attributes. Assuming a three-letter filename, that's (src="xxx.gif")*2 = 26 bytes.
Three <script> tag type= attributes. That's (type="text/javascript")*3 = 66 bytes.
Two <style> tag type= attributes. That's (type="text/css")*2 = 30 bytes.
205 attributes in the header a
Re:Still no web standards... (Score:2)
Re:Still no web standards... (Score:2)
Google's logo alone is more than 10x that; and the advertisment for the Google toolbar is more than 3x that. At almost 16KB each, the homepage views alone are almost 3.2TB per day. Even a single query rarely produces a results page under 32K (add it up), which, added to the homepage views, means that Google is transferring over 9.6TB per day in searches alone.
Because, as you know, 148GB of data transfer per day costs so much. 2000GB of dat
Re:Still no web standards... (Score:2)
Right now, Valve's Steam content servers are piping out 2.31Gbps. They transfer as much in 8 minutes as Google "saves" by using invalid HTML in a whole day.
Bandwidth is a tiny part of Google's cost structure.
Same day as CNN goes vertical -> horizontal. (Score:2)
Re:To be honest... (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:To be honest... (Score:2)
sex is... (Score:2)
Re:To be honest... (Score:2)
old news (Score:5, Informative)
Old news++ (Score:2, Funny)
not much (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:not much (Score:2)
I assume this is why this search page only available if you 'cheat'.
Is it a necessary evil? (Score:2)
Re:Is it a necessary evil? (Score:1)
I, for one... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I, for one... (Score:2)
Choices, choices (Score:3, Funny)
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.
Er, wow. (Score:1)
Re:Er, wow. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Er, wow. (Score:1)
Seconded!
Changing main points of character development when you "remaster" a movie is completely ridiculous.
Maybe they can change it next so that darth vader moonlights as a tap dancer
Re:Er, wow. (Score:2, Redundant)
Re:Er, wow. (Score:5, Funny)
How does one go about "discovering" this code? (Score:4, Interesting)
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
Matthew Wong
http://www.themindofmatthew.com [themindofmatthew.com]
Re:How does one go about "discovering" this code? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:How does one go about "discovering" this code? (Score:2)
What is the
Me too! Let us read the threaded replies to the article in wonder!
Google's Plans? (Score:1)
I thought their goal was to spend all day smoking pot, eating Chips Ahoy, and watching Caliente or Martha. Oh wait, that used to be mine. From what I remember, college was a good thing.
Changing it back. (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Changing it back. (Score:2)
Addendum: If you don't know how to clear all of your cookies, reformat your hard drive. It will be included.
Re:Changing it back. (Score:2)
Fixed.
Google cluttered (Score:2)
Delete the cookie name PREF if you want to go back to the old interface.
Re:Google cluttered (Score:2)
Re:Google cluttered (Score:2)
Yep, and I don't like it.
I can't tell from the screenie, and don't use js in my main browser so we ain't goin' there, but if they screw up the table structure the way they did with the last change, it will render some links unreachable for some browsers (you'll be able to SEE the link, but not CLICK on it).
not new (maybe slashdot new; but not new) (Score:3, Insightful)
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.
Re:not new (maybe slashdot new; but not new) (Score:3, Informative)
See my other comment [slashdot.org] for an explanation.
Customized Tabs (Score:1)
Wow (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Wow (Score:2)
Us hackers get off on that, it's in our blood.
No, we get off on being anal retentive and finding things like grammar errors.
" I'll take a stab at what that purpose is" (Score:2)
I say it's to accomodate wide aspect monitors better.
Will this hack run on Booble? (Score:2)
Just for once... (Score:2)
Re:Just for once... (Score:2)
Re:Just for once... (Score:2)
Re:Just for once... (Score:2)
hmmm. to me, it screams "1997".
World Domination! (Score:2, Funny)
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!
Re:World Domination! (Score:2)
green bars? (Score:2, Funny)
/sarcasm
I don't digg this (Score:1)
Ars article is partly wrong... (Score:2)
This isn't really true. Although the results start a bit higher up on the page, there is now a huge chunk of empty space on the left side. So, no, you are not getting "more [results] per window".
Google Pre-Hacks? (Score:2)
Meh (Score:2)
also, they could fit more on the sidebar; like including book search, and, well pretty much everything at http://www.google.com/options/ [google.com]
An ajax interface would actually kick ass here; click 'images' and it loads the image results right into the results frame.
Also, can anyone tell me what the green bars to the right of each search mean? I would h
oh joy, another article about Google (Score:1, Redundant)
World domination? (Score:2)
-F
Meh. It's ok, but . . . . (Score:2, Insightful)
Unlimited cookies in google code (Score:3, Funny)
IG (Score:2)
wrong celestial object (Score:2, Funny)
Wow, this is bad news for Yahoo/MS (Score:2, Funny)
Apparently just a mockup (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Apparently just a mockup (Score:2)
They definitely change depending on the search
time for CSS choice!! (Score:2)
Some other new google 'features' (Score:2, Interesting)
Why move the links... (Score:2)
Clusty!!! (Score:2, Informative)
The second cool featu
Firefox? (Score:2)
Re:News for Nerds... (Score:2)
You could go to digg and find out what Steve Jobs had for breakfast.
Re:News for Nerds... (Score:5, Funny)
I bet it was really cool and trendy, and worked way better than what Bill Gates had for breakfast.
Re:News for Nerds... (Score:2)
I'll bet it was off-white (Score:2)
Re:I'll bet it was off-white (Score:2)
Re:News for Nerds... (Score:2)
(laugh, it's funny)
Re:In other news... (Score:2)
Re:Okay, very funny (Score:2, Informative)