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Has Google always done that?

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Originally posted by: thesurge
So I'm on my old Windows98 (very old) and I'm bored, so I search for this old game site I used to go to and..... I see this:

http://img231.imageshack.us/my.php?image=googlealways0wv.gif
http://img231.imageshack.us/my.php?image=googlealways28sg.gif

Has Google always done this? I only remember "Do you mean"... is this new, or have I just missed something:

Test it out yourself:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=jay+is
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=ack

Takes over 20 seconds to load your images (slow ass image hosting site). Not going to bother with this....
 
Originally posted by: slag
Originally posted by: thesurge
So I'm on my old Windows98 (very old) and I'm bored, so I search for this old game site I used to go to and..... I see this:

http://img231.imageshack.us/my.php?image=googlealways0wv.gif
http://img231.imageshack.us/my.php?image=googlealways28sg.gif

Has Google always done this? I only remember "Do you mean"... is this new, or have I just missed something:

Test it out yourself:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=jay+is
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=ack

Takes over 20 seconds to load your images (slow ass image hosting site). Not going to bother with this....

Are you freaking kidding me? Imageshack is one of the fastest BIG image hosting sites, must be a slow connection. I load in like 3 seconds.

 
Originally posted by: thesurge

Are you freaking kidding me? Imageshack is one of the fastest BIG image hosting sites, must be a slow connection. I load in like 3 seconds.

He's just angry he has SBC 😛

(I have a hatred for sbc and their slowness in my area 🙁 )
 
Originally posted by: Rami7007
i had never seen it but it happened to me 2 days ago... it must be new

oxymoronic? or just messed up? you never saw it happen but it happened to you 2 days ago, so you felt it?
 
Originally posted by: magomago
Never seen it...but turning off my filtering made it go away (Firefox)

What's filtering?

I've never seen that before either. Maybe Google is quietly testing a new feature.
 
Yeah, if you check down at the bottom of the search page for a link that says something like, "Dissatisfied? Help us Improve." You can send a message to the google team telling them that they have too many porn/webstore/useless links for the topic that you searched. They actually read those emails and try to do something about it. It was introduced awhile back, the first time I saw it was in 2002, but for the life of me... I can't remember what I searched for!
 
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