Google changed dramatically?

[f murtz]

SolomonW wrote:

On Fri, 07 May 2010 21:21:58 +1000, F Murtz wrote:

Don McKenzie wrote:

Still waking up, and I getting weird results on google search.

Well, weird is the wrong word, very different. In fact it looks great
for google search fans.

Maybe my computer is broken, or I am in a dream?
I assume this is the way it is to be from now on.

Don...



I use google with seamonkey and it has been doing weird things, it
keeps redirecting to perfectly ordinary looking but diverse pages but
not what I wanted.
If I shut the page and re click on the url it goes to the right page
I spent 24 hrs loading a new version of a squared free and running it in
safe mode,it found some things which I quarantined.
Rebooted and google is still acting in the same stupid way.
The pages it redirects to do not look like the pages that nasties send
you to

I had something similar with gmail, try clearing all the cookies from
google.

Eureka touch wood, I just ran ccleaner and the registry check,fixed
problems and it now seems to be working.

 

[Mike Dee]

Sandgroper wrote:

If you want to use the old google without that stupid side bar ,
then use these links

http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=all

http://www.google.com.au/webhp?hl=all

Great tip, Sandgroper. Thanks for posting it, much appreciated. Long
may it last ;-)

--
dee

 

[F Murtz]

f murtz wrote:

SolomonW wrote:
On Fri, 07 May 2010 21:21:58 +1000, F Murtz wrote:

Don McKenzie wrote:

Still waking up, and I getting weird results on google search.

Well, weird is the wrong word, very different. In fact it looks great
for google search fans.

Maybe my computer is broken, or I am in a dream?
I assume this is the way it is to be from now on.

Don...



I use google with seamonkey and it has been doing weird things, it
keeps redirecting to perfectly ordinary looking but diverse pages but
not what I wanted.
If I shut the page and re click on the url it goes to the right page
I spent 24 hrs loading a new version of a squared free and running it in
safe mode,it found some things which I quarantined.
Rebooted and google is still acting in the same stupid way.
The pages it redirects to do not look like the pages that nasties send
you to

I had something similar with gmail, try clearing all the cookies from
google.



Eureka touch wood, I just ran ccleaner and the registry check,fixed
problems and it now seems to be working.

Spoke to soon, google still acting strange

 

[Rod Speed]

^Tems^ wrote

Sandgroper wrote
Don McKenzie <5V@2.5A> wrote

In fact it looks great for google search fans.

Have you noticed now that you don't have the radio buttons
underneath the search buttons so that you can select to do your search for either Aust or for the whole web.

The work around is to add "+ au" to the end of the search string.

Or click pages from Australia on the left on the search result page

Just noticed that there is no obvious way to turn off
google automatically sorting stuff by australian hits now.

Wanted to check on the detail of supermarket unit pricing in the
US and see if it was ever legally mandated or whether it was
always entirely voluntary and even going to google.com directly
or using the google.com link on the main simple search page
doesnt help, you still get the australian hits at the top.

Nothing in the new tools strip on the left thats of any use either.

 

[SolomonW]

On Tue, 11 May 2010 01:46:20 +1000, F Murtz wrote:

f murtz wrote:
SolomonW wrote:
On Fri, 07 May 2010 21:21:58 +1000, F Murtz wrote:

Don McKenzie wrote:

Still waking up, and I getting weird results on google search.

Well, weird is the wrong word, very different. In fact it looks great
for google search fans.

Maybe my computer is broken, or I am in a dream?
I assume this is the way it is to be from now on.

Don...



I use google with seamonkey and it has been doing weird things, it
keeps redirecting to perfectly ordinary looking but diverse pages but
not what I wanted.
If I shut the page and re click on the url it goes to the right page
I spent 24 hrs loading a new version of a squared free and running it in
safe mode,it found some things which I quarantined.
Rebooted and google is still acting in the same stupid way.
The pages it redirects to do not look like the pages that nasties send
you to

I had something similar with gmail, try clearing all the cookies from
google.



Eureka touch wood, I just ran ccleaner and the registry check,fixed
problems and it now seems to be working.

Spoke to soon, google still acting strange

In firefox try Tools -> private Browsing. If that does work it is the
cookies so try clear history (everything)

 

[F Murtz]

SolomonW wrote:

On Tue, 11 May 2010 01:46:20 +1000, F Murtz wrote:

f murtz wrote:
SolomonW wrote:
On Fri, 07 May 2010 21:21:58 +1000, F Murtz wrote:

Don McKenzie wrote:

Still waking up, and I getting weird results on google search.

Well, weird is the wrong word, very different. In fact it looks great
for google search fans.

Maybe my computer is broken, or I am in a dream?
I assume this is the way it is to be from now on.

Don...



I use google with seamonkey and it has been doing weird things, it
keeps redirecting to perfectly ordinary looking but diverse pages but
not what I wanted.
If I shut the page and re click on the url it goes to the right page
I spent 24 hrs loading a new version of a squared free and running it in
safe mode,it found some things which I quarantined.
Rebooted and google is still acting in the same stupid way.
The pages it redirects to do not look like the pages that nasties send
you to

I had something similar with gmail, try clearing all the cookies from
google.



Eureka touch wood, I just ran ccleaner and the registry check,fixed
problems and it now seems to be working.

Spoke to soon, google still acting strange

In firefox try Tools -> private Browsing. If that does work it is the
cookies so try clear history (everything)

It seem to be settled down now.In the middle of that trouble I kept
getting a virus that kept putting up a popup, windows internet security
that wanted to me to install something that costs money to remove the
rubbish they infected me with. I seem to have fixed that and now both
troubles seem to have subsided. Touch wood.(I ran lots of free well
known detector plus removal software and some specific tricks for the
virus which seem to have fixed my troubles.)