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Google adds tools list in search
AVAILABLE IN 37 LANGUAGES soon is a Google left-hand tools list for results refinement that offers little that is new.
The search results list has tools from the previously released expandable search options while the universal search function provides the usual relevant results output. So what is new? Maybe the new shiny bit is the addition of Google Squared, previously available on Google Labs, Squared will help find related stuff but it does not make up for the fact that we have seen similar search refinement tools before, namely on the Vole's Bing.
Yet Google vice president of search products and user experience Marissa Mayer's blog describes this tools list as "so powerful and simple" and even a "metamorphosis".
Bing increased its share of the US search market in March while market leader Google slipped a bit, although that might more due to the fact that the Vole is spending a fortune on advertising and has nicked a bit of Yahoo's share. µ
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Very useful Vinman, thanks.
Do you know how to manage the drop down search engine list ( add remove engines ) in firefox ?
Step 1. Download the firefox addon : Greasemonkey
Step 2. Install it and restart firefox when prompted
Step 3. Tools-- GreaseMonkey -- New User Script
Step 4. Name: SIDEBASE
NAMESPACE: SIDEBAR
everything else I left blank
Step 5. You might prompted to find your text editor. Choose C:\windows\notepad.exe
Step 6. Paste the following script in notepad screen that just popped up
Greasemonkey script to remove the left side bar:
function AddStyle(Style) {
var style = document.createElement('style'
);
style.type = "text/css";
style.innerHTML = Style;
document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(style);
};
AddStyle("#leftnav {display:none}");
AddStyle("#center_col {margin-left:0}");
LAST Step : Save
BINGO NO SIDEBAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The old configuration was the reason I used Google in the first place. If I wanted the retarded Bing look, I would use Bing.
Change for the sake of change is lame. This configuration is too cluttered.
Google, if you're listening, change it back!
Actually, this "streamlined" search page is just forcing users to use the "advanced search" option previously available by clicking "advanced search".
I guess Google figured after they cleaned up the front page by only having the menu options show up when the pointer goes on the window, they needed to clutter up the search results somehow to make up for it.
The default page for search results was fine, and for those cases you needed to narrow the search, it wasn't that hard to click "advanced search".
Just another stupid idea someone decided to implement to aggravate us for however long it lasts. Hopefully there's enough complaints in the coming days that Google changes it back sooner rather than later.