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Chasing Caseys
30-10-2005, 9:56 PM
Yesterday i noticed that Google has a new "face" or "look". Aol did ponder this look a while back but reverted to the original look. Has anyone else got this as i find the new look irritating and not half as easy to read through quickly as the "old look" |rant|
Trish
30-10-2005, 10:45 PM
I still get the old look. What does the new look look like??? :confused:
Chasing Caseys
30-10-2005, 11:25 PM
Hi Trish
Em.......cant describe it really. If i could cut and paste i would ! All i can say is its blue and green and skinny :confused: Whereas the old look is just blue and black and chunky ! :confused:
I dont like this at all and wonder why i have it and you dont ! They did do this before all i can say is i hope they change mine back as i cant get used to it at all.
Peter Goodey
31-10-2005, 12:10 AM
"i find the new look irritating and not half as easy to read through quickly as the "old look""
I haven't noticed any difference. Could the answer to your problem be to stop using AOL?
Chasing Caseys
31-10-2005, 12:35 AM
I haven't noticed any difference. Could the answer to your problem be to stop using AOL?
If i stopped using aol i would no longer have my email address which is as important to me now as my phone number :rolleyes: Even if i wanted to ive got another 3 months contract on it. Google is my problem and if that persists i will have to and try to find another easier search engine. :confused:
Google looks the same tonight as it's done for ages.
Do both http://www.google.com and http://www.google.co.uk look the same for you?
Mark
Ladkyis
31-10-2005, 2:46 AM
I have just looked at google and it is the same as always for me too - perhaps you have accidently altered a setting on your browser - if you have a mouse with a little wheel between the buttons you could have moved it while pressing the shift key or whatever and changed the size of the screen or the definition or whatever the heck it is - sorry to be so technical here - I did that once and everything went very tall for a while until my dear computer literate friend jiggled it back again.
Ann
...Do both http://www.google.com (http://www.google.com/) and http://www.google.co.uk (http://www.google.co.uk/) look the same for you?Well, they look the same to me anyway... but it's Tracey we're wondering about, isn't it?
...All i can say is its blue and green and skinny...Tracey, what I see -- and it hasn't changed in recent memory -- are blue and red and yellow and green letters not black and blue. And I wouldn't call them chunky!
...i find the new look irritating and not half as easy to read through quickly as the "old look"...So the actual display of hits looks different?
Trish
Peter Goodey
31-10-2005, 10:46 AM
Is there a special AOL browser? If so and you're using it, try dumping it and using something standard.
busyglen
31-10-2005, 11:44 AM
Is there a special AOL browser? If so and you're using it, try dumping it and using something standard.
Tracey, I'm with AOL and Google looks the same to me....I think it must be something that's got `switched' off on your PC. But....what do I know, I'm not a technophobe. ;)
Glenys
Jo Simpsons
31-10-2005, 11:48 AM
It looks different for me. It also has a "I'm Feeling Lucky" search box, can't remember seeing that before?
Also if you put in faiilure to search and click the I'm feeling luck button, a starnge page comes up!
Jo :)
Sue Mackay
31-10-2005, 12:40 PM
It looks different for me. It also has a "I'm Feeling Lucky" search box, can't remember seeing that before?
The "I'm Feeling Lucky" box has been there for years! It all looks the same to me, except of course that today all the Google lettering is dressed in Hallowe'en costume - they do tend to mark special occasions in this way, which is sometimes a good reminder of what the date is!!
Diane Grant-Salmon
31-10-2005, 1:26 PM
I see exactly the same as you do Sue. :)
Jo Simpsons
31-10-2005, 1:56 PM
Well I had never noticed before :o Shows what reading too many census does to your eyes! |laugh1|
Jo :)
Yes, I have noted some changes
Only minor but it could be they are in the process of changing the look of the Site. Maybe more on the way.
Chasing Caseys
31-10-2005, 2:13 PM
Maybe i am getting confused. AOL use Google as a search engine. I am now thinking that aol are using the actual Google page instead of there own look for the results ? I went onto Google using www. and their page is the one i am now seeing on aol, if this is making sence :confused: I clicked the im feeling lucky button as i also had never seen this before and it was no more lucky for me than the original queery
I wished they would inform users of changes or as they put it "enhanced features". I can only hope they change it back to how it was.
It all looks the same to me, except of course that today all the Google lettering is dressed in Hallowe'en costume - they do tend to mark special occasions in this way, which is sometimes a good reminder of what the date is!!
Yep, looks just as Sue says, and if it hadn't been for the Hallowe'en costume I wouldn't have remembered that tomorrow was November :o
Best wishes
Ann
Ladkyis
31-10-2005, 6:20 PM
now I want to know if the same thing happens for other people cos I just went to google and typed in Ann Macey then clicked the "I'm feeling lucky" button and wow was I surprised! I didn't know it could do that!
Ann
Diane Grant-Salmon
31-10-2005, 6:30 PM
now I want to know if the same thing happens for other people cos I just went to google and typed in Ann Macey then clicked the "I'm feeling lucky" button and wow was I surprised! I didn't know it could do that!
Ann
You're surprised Ann! :eek: Are spooks about or what! I read your message, clicked my Google link in My Favorites, got it and typed my name in the box.
After clicking the "I'm feeling lucky" button, I got your Profile here at BG Forums! :confused:
Oh! I never clicked on the "I'm feeling lucky" button before because I thought that it would take me to a silly gambling web site and that I would end up with a load of ad pop-ups :o
As for the appearance and results pages, they all look the same as they always did except for the Hallowe'en bits, regardless of whether I enter google.ca, google.co.uk or google.com :D
Linda
Heehee Diane! This is really silly! I entered my own name and clicked on I'm Feeling Lucky and it took me to a Century 21 (real Estate) web site, with a piccie of a lovely big house.
Oooh! I should've bought a lottery ticket. Some of the ones they have over here have big homes for prizes. :cool:
Linda
Sue Mackay
31-10-2005, 10:58 PM
now I want to know if the same thing happens for other people cos I just went to google and typed in Ann Macey then clicked the "I'm feeling lucky" button and wow was I surprised! I didn't know it could do that!
Ann
Well I tried typing in Sue Mackay and hitting "I'm feeling lucky" but it preferred the Tasmanian politician of the same name - even the same middle name (but a tad younger!!)
The Wikpedia site I was sent to had this sentence: "She reigned from politics in July, 2005." I take it there's an 's' missing,or is this some secret Australian desire to have 'republican reigns'!!
BTW, I never normally use the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button. It only ever takes you to the top site on the search list, which is often not the best one, and even if it is you often see another good site further down if you bring up the list.
Chasing Caseys
31-10-2005, 11:46 PM
This is me when i hit the "I feel lucky" button with my name .................
EQUILIBRIUM BODY AND SOUL
"Balance your mind, body and spirit"
Maybe i should follow it up :D
This is me when i hit the "I feel lucky" button with my name .................
EQUILIBRIUM BODY AND SOUL
"Balance your mind, body and spirit"
Maybe i should follow it up :D
I think we must be soul mates, as I come up with someone who belongs to the American Fantasy and Sci-Fi Art Gallery at Elfland :cool:
Put the pair of us together and we would be floating on another planet.....
Best wishes
Ann
Patrisia
01-11-2005, 11:57 AM
I must be lucky! I put my name in and got straight to my website - I usually get an exotic dancer.
busyglen
01-11-2005, 12:51 PM
I must be lucky! I put my name in and got straight to my website - I usually get an exotic dancer.
I put my name in and got an entry that I had put onto another forum 3 years ago searching for my Naish family! That was via `I'm feeling lucky' which I had tried before, but not with my name.
If I put my name in the ordinary search, it brings up all of the posts I've made in various forums, and my web site. Luckily with my names, I haven't found a `twin'!
Glenys
mary elms
01-11-2005, 1:05 PM
:eek: I can't possibly live up to my name. Google and I feel lucky gives me "St Mary in the Elms, Ipswich" :eek:
Mary.
Ladkyis
01-11-2005, 2:21 PM
Now this is why I am not a teacher, I put Ann Macey into the box and I wondered if everyone would get what I got if they too put Ann Macey into the box - still it was interesting to read the results and I am slightly envious of Mary Elms getting a whole place when she did it but Diane getting my profile here when she put in Hmmmm scarey! must have been the date that did it.:confused:
Ann
busyglen
02-11-2005, 11:41 AM
:eek: I can't possibly live up to my name. Google and I feel lucky gives me "St Mary in the Elms, Ipswich" :eek:
Mary.
Come now Mary, don't be SO modest....I think it fits you superbly! :)
Glenys
mary elms
02-11-2005, 1:48 PM
Aw shucks Glenys! |blush| but you never get to see me doing this |computer| or this |snore| - especially during other people's sermons - or this |rant| - all of which are also me! Come to think of it you probably have seen the last one from time to time! I do like these new smilies !!!!!
Mary.
Andrew Mead
03-11-2005, 11:25 PM
'I'm feeling lucky' brings up the most requested site for that search. It used to work well for 'Weapons if Mass destruction', coming up with a page saying 'Weapons of mass destruction cannot be found'. I think it still works for 'French Military Victories' - then click on th offered link!
Andrew
Chasing Caseys
04-11-2005, 12:37 AM
AnnB
It really is a shame we are not geographically compatible as i am looking for a new vocation |idea|
AnnB
It really is a shame we are not geographically compatible as i am looking for a new vocation |idea|
Well, after the 'hits' we found on 'I'm feeling lucky', we could set up a Clouds for Hire service, especially for |angel|'s
Best wishes
Ann
Chasing Caseys
04-11-2005, 8:19 PM
Quick........patent that idea or someone will snap it up |idea|
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