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Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: PyroMenace on Monday, September 06, 2010, 11:58:38 PM

Title: Check out the google home page
Post by: PyroMenace on Monday, September 06, 2010, 11:58:38 PM

It's all funky!

Title: Re: Check out the google home page
Post by: idolminds on Tuesday, September 07, 2010, 12:03:51 AM

I just spent 5 minutes playing with it. Damn you, Google.

Title: Re: Check out the google home page
Post by: Cobra951 on Tuesday, September 07, 2010, 07:26:06 AM

What a groovy way to peg my CPU.

Title: Re: Check out the google home page
Post by: Xessive on Tuesday, September 07, 2010, 08:24:33 AM

Funky, I had to load google.co.uk to check because every time I try google.com it loads the localized version (google.ae) which has nothing special going on. Speaking of which, is there any way to prevent Google from loading the localized page and language?

I've been sending feedback to Google asking them to add a language selection option after you run a search (Bing and Yahoo do it). As it is, I have to select English from the drop-down on the main Google page, otherwise it runs all searches in Arabic (or Russian if I'm routing through a Russian VPN) making the search bar in Firefox pretty much useless.

Title: Re: Check out the google home page
Post by: Ghandi on Wednesday, September 08, 2010, 11:03:21 AM

Google just introduced Google Instant (http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/08/google-speeds-queries-with-instant-results/?hp). Go to Google to try it. Basically it guesses what you are gonna type and instantly shows the results. It's much more seamless that I though it would be, I like it.

Title: Re: Check out the google home page
Post by: Cobra951 on Wednesday, September 08, 2010, 11:53:44 AM

That's much quicker than I thought it would be.  Good going Google.

Title: Re: Check out the google home page
Post by: idolminds on Wednesday, September 08, 2010, 12:22:34 PM

Man, I bet thats really cool if you're not on dialup.

Title: Re: Check out the google home page
Post by: Cobra951 on Wednesday, September 08, 2010, 12:24:04 PM

LOLz.  Google toolbar only for you.

Title: Re: Check out the google home page
Post by: idolminds on Wednesday, September 08, 2010, 12:31:58 PM

Actually just typing anything into my Firefox URL bar and hitting enter does a google search.

"Instant" is less instant when its trying to run searches after every keystroke...before its completed the search for the last one. It just bogs itself down. At least I can disable it. But it still seems pretty neat if I wasn't trapped in hell.

Title: Re: Check out the google home page
Post by: Xessive on Wednesday, September 08, 2010, 04:30:31 PM

Here's a video from Life Hacker: Google vs Google Instant (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wx0UNFtwWg0&feature=player_embedded#!)