Google Changed

[SC-UK]

I feel like a bit of an idiot having just spent about 30 minutes trying to work out what I had done to my computer that was making Google bigger.

 

Turns out its a Google thing to make the service easier

 

Google Bumps Up Size Of Search Box

[elsiegee40]

Glad it wasn't just me I changed routers tonight and have had a right battle with getting things sorted... I was so befuddled, I was wondering how on earth changing a router could affect Google!

[tech_guy]

I feel like a bit of an idiot having just spent about 30 minutes trying to work out what I had done to my computer that was making Google bigger.

 

Turns out its a Google thing to make the service easier

 

Google Bumps Up Size Of Search Box

 

Some of the comments at the bottom of the page are funny. TBH I hadn't noticed the change. Bit distracted at the moment with other stuff.

[Michael]

I noticed it too. Thought my page was magnified!

[EduTech]

yeah i also noticed it! thought it was just my work machine having a fit! but then came home this evening to find the same on my laptop!

 

James.

[contink]

Yep... also guilty of thinking ruddy firefox had borked something... Also 45 minutes of twiddling trying to "fix it"...

[SC-UK]

I wonder how many "IT Professionals" from around the world have been scratching their heads at this one!

 

Would love to see the guy at Google who pressed "GO". I bet just loves the amount of torment he is causing

[john]

Whats spookier is Google.com is bigger than Google.co.uk spookey!

[FN-GM]

Whats spookier is Google.com is bigger than Google.co.uk spookey!

 

Both look the same to me.

[jamesb]

I didn't even notice, but then I haven't used Google at all for a few months.

 

Just had a look at it now and honestly can't tell the difference.

[localzuk]

Ahh, explains it. Looks huge on my laptop now, about half an inch high.

 

*Goes to investigate a greasemonkey script to shrink it back down*

[R0M]

Ahh, I was just trying to tweek that about 20 min ago! I was looking at it through Firefox start page (Mozilla Firefox Start Page) and its ok maybe because its cached then i'd go to google it was bigger.

 

I'm glad I found out here other wise I would have spent the next 10min trying Ctrl + MouseWheel Up/Down

[ahuxham]

I like it

[enjay]

On a similar note, has anyone noticed Google.co.uk searches getting worse recently? I've been finding that many of the results are somewhat left of centre, but if I run the same search from .com, I get "normal" results...

[plexer]

I just hate when I'm looking for uk sites and using uk search to still get non uk results.

 

I also thought the text size in my browser had been fiddled with.

 

Ben

[SC-UK]

On a similar note, has anyone noticed Google.co.uk searches getting worse recently? I've been finding that many of the results are somewhat left of centre, but if I run the same search from .com, I get "normal" results...

 

Definitely. It seems to be getting progressively worse everyday, bringing up really oddball search results rather than anything at all relevant!

[Michael]

I wonder that's why Google have patented their homepage? Really makes a lot of sense

[Heebeejeebee]

I like the new size:

 

On the other hand ... it "only allows for up to 2,048 characters in a single query".

 

Which is this much (including spaces):

 

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

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The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

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I don't know how I'm going to cope!

 

HBJB