New Google (1 Viewer)

[jake2.0]

What do you guys thing of the new Google site. Instead of having "Images, Groups..." under the search bar they are on the side now. I liked it before

 

[AntiHyper]

they still are on top.. mine's not on the side.

may be ur browser being strange or internet connection is losing packets of data.

 

[jake2.0]

its wierd only happens in firefox, works normal in IE. In firefox they r only at top after i've put in a search item n pressed enter

 

[robo-andie]

I run Firefox, and my Google looks no different to what it did before.......

 

[jake2.0]

Here is wat i get

 

[robo-andie]

That's really odd....

 

[robo-andie]

Maybe it's a particular theme you're using on FireFox which is changing site layouts???
I can't think of why it would do that.

 

[jake2.0]

problem solved...just cleared cookies and its back to normal

 

[ogmzergrush]

If you click the "Preferences" link on the front google page, there's an option called "Format". By default, this is set to HTML, but there's an option for XHTML. If you choose this, the layout which results is what you're describing. The reason clearing your cookies worked is because it removed the previously stated preference for Google to display in XHTML rather than HTML.

On a sidenote, I find the XHTML layout to be exceedingly worse than the default HTML, does anyone actually like it more?

 

[robo-andie]

Now that I have seen it and know what it is.... no. I think it's rather skanky.

Personally, I'm all for google desktop toolbars and personalised google homepages, rarely do I use the standard webpage.

 

[jm1234567890]

I use the new format by default since you can see more results in a page. It's more compact.

 

[jm1234567890]

Oh wait it's available as a preference now? Not bad.

It was always avaliable as a preference. You just have to install a special cookie.