Comments on: Google Forcing Desktop Download?

By: Robert Macbeth

Robert Macbeth — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 02:10:08 +0000

Googleâ€™s search engine now finds utter crap in relation to anything you ask for and fills its so called relevant pages with page upon page of advertising websites and you end up trolling through just shear rubbish.
IE7. What a joke. Microsoft is yet again trying to control people by what and how they do things.
Yahoo search engine with Firefox

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 21:00:00 +0000

I’m on the search page everyday with IE6 and haven’t seen this.

By: Jacob Levy

Jacob Levy — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 18:58:00 +0000

Im using IE6 and right now the search http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLG,GGLG :2005-43,GGLG:en&q=google+dog+food does not show this problem. I have the google toolbar however (not google desktop) so maybe thats why.

By: Dusty

Dusty — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 18:47:00 +0000

I’m curious. In my playing around with html, I noticed several explanatory cautions that IE doesn’t treat code in the way defined by www, most being complaints that MS doesn’t adhere to the standards.

Is this what we are seeing here — that IE parsed (is that the right word) the Google’s code differently than expected, or, to put another way, Google forgot to include the IE workaround so that what Google intended would work across the entire browser spectrum?

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 18:08:00 +0000

Just another reason to dump IE, and embrace the virtues of Firefox. Faster, safer, more secure.

By: Daniel Goldman

Daniel Goldman — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 05:17:00 +0000

Works fine in Opera.

By: David Wallace

David Wallace — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 01:30:00 +0000

Glad to know I am not the only one. Thought something was messed up in my IE… well other then IE being messed up already.

By: William Slawski

William Slawski — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 01:15:00 +0000

Yes, I experienced that problem, too.

I had to start using a boolean “-” operator to exclude some of the results I was receiving and continue searching.

I’ll have to change browsers for further searches. Thanks.