Fixed forever
Larry: "That black toolbar isn't very popular - what can we do?"
Developer: "No problem, we changed the colour to white"
Google is scrapping its short-lived black search navigation bar in favour of a new design that falls into line with the company's increasingly uniformed social network platform brand. It's no longer satisfactory enough for Google to let visitors to its search engine simply pull up results based on queries those individuals …
I'm not on Google+, don't have a profile and certainly don't want to be logged in to do search.
But this just goes down that road more and more, now get boxes telling me to login so I can "share" things.
Bring back the search box and a submit button and get rid of all this useless Javascript and social crap.
I'm fed up. Changing to something else.
Nothing is stopping you from using your browser's search box/search from URL bar. Or have they removed that functionality in Chrome?
I've set up Opera to use Scroogle (anonymising Google front end) as the default search engine from the search box, but sometimes I also use DuckDuckGo - another search engine that doesn't track your history, and doesn't keep you in a bubble. See http://dontbubble.us/
Most browsers make it fairly easy to add/remove search engines, and change the default one.
Obviously Google and FB etc are doing all they can to get more data about you, but I also expect to see more demand for what you get from the likes of the above: neutral results.
Paris... illustrating my own confusion as I read your post
<<removal of that bar will signal that Google's mourning period, following the death of so many of its products, is over>>, ehehehehe good one.
google search has become quite annoying in the last year. I don't like the increased activity in the results page, it's distracting. I would gladly use another search engine but none are comparable to google - I simply don't find stuff with Bing or Yahoo. I remember that at the beginning Google was proud to promote the simplest possible search interface, this has slipped a lot.
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Today an additional blue bar has appeared, directly below the black one, declaring "Click here to start sharing on Google+"
I'm thinking its time to begin investigating the Grease Monkey Firefox addon again to see if that can do anything to "restore" the search page to its once clutter free design. OptomizeGoogle can't seem to keep up with Googles constant changes (Google actively appears to be trying to circumvent OptomizeGoogles circumventions... causing a little battle of wills between OptomizeGoogle removing stuff and Googles scripts adding them back while the page constantly refreshes!)
I'm just not hip or current enough.. but why the *uck is this even news? Yes, it will indeed change my life, as will the fact that the weather turned a little cooler here today.
Nothing like a free press release for the boys driving the Hershey Highway to the chocolate factory... yay!!!! Made my day.
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List of links on my google page, to other pages.... lets see... oh the first one is gmail you asked for that.... calendar, very nice... oh look documents, you asked for that too.... wow those guys in that place must be psychic....
Or its been there all along but people appear to be blind.