[gui-talk] google has changed and searches are now difficult

[George and Pamela Dominguez]

Isn't open in separate window a choice when tabbing through the results page 
or something?  I don't remember ever telling it to do that.  I always 
wondered what the point to that would be.  Pam.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Jacobson" <steve.jacobson at visi.com>
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, December 15, 2008 10:32 AM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] google has changed and searches are now difficult


> Be sure that you have not set the option to open up results in a separate 
> window.  This can be handy, but it also means
> the BACKSPACE and ALT LEFT ARROW can't go back.  If you ALT TAB around and 
> find your result as well as the
> original Google screen, then it has opened in a separate window.  You can 
> close it with ALT-F4, though.
>
>
> On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 08:11:53 -0500, George and Pamela Dominguez wrote:
>
>>The only problem I have had with google, lately, is that I can't backspace
>>out of something I'm looking at to go to another result.  I don't think it
>>happens to me all the time, though, so I don't know what causes it to 
>>happen
>>when it does.  That's not my beef with google.  My thing with them is that
>>they seem to be so hot on getting more results than anybody else that, the
>>other day, when I was searching for something, I realized that lots of the
>>results were copies of the same document over and over again.  So, in
>>effect, the 500 or 1000 results it found were phony because it was really
>>only a few different things.  Pam.
>>----- Original Message ----- 
>>From: "Steve Jacobson" <steve.jacobson at visi.com>
>>To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
>>Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2008 10:40 AM
>>Subject: Re: [gui-talk] google has changed and searches are now difficult
>
>
>>> Tom,
>>>
>>> I used Google extensively on Friday night and tried it just now this
>>> morning, Sunday, and I do not notice a change.  If
>>> you are getting one result, it makes me think you could be using the
>>> "feeling lucky" button or something and opening
>>> the results in a new window.  Unless I am missing something, it sounds 
>>> as
>>> though a setting may have gotten changed
>>> for you.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>> Steve Jacobson
>>>
>>> On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 08:49:49 -0500, plume wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hello everyone,
>>>>I have always enjoyed using Google and has always found the information
>>>>which I have searched for easy.
>>>
>>>>Google has changed and I find it very difficult to find the information
>>>>which I have been searching for.
>>>
>>>>Did Google make a big change or did some of my settinhgs cause this
>>>>problem?
>>>
>>>>Sometime Google will only provide me with one choice and I cannot get 
>>>>out
>>>>of
>>>>that site by pressing the back space key.
>>>
>>>>Can someone provide some info on my problem?
>>>
>>>>Thanks, Tom Blume
>>>>Voice mail: 206-312-7844
>>>
>>>
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