Mercurythread » google.co.uk http://www.mercurythread.co.uk The personal website of Michael Briggs : Professional SEO and Internet Geek Tue, 08 Nov 2011 22:31:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Google.com – Any Time, Any Language, Any File http://www.mercurythread.co.uk/blog/googlecom-any-time-any-language-any-file/2009/02/ http://www.mercurythread.co.uk/blog/googlecom-any-time-any-language-any-file/2009/02/#comments Mon, 16 Feb 2009 12:23:44 +0000 Michael http://www.mercurythread.co.uk/blog/?p=127 I’m not on google.com very often – most of my clients work in google.co.uk as their main traffic driver (as they’re in the UK) but today I was running some tests in google.com and I started to get different lopoking result sets:

 

WTF is Google Doing

WTF is Google Doing

So the bit in red is the part where I could refine my result set by Any Tim, Any Language and Any File. By changing these variables you get different results within the new limits – its like the advanced search parameters you can select anyway.

The request URL also changed as for once I acturally hit the google search button rather than using a toolbar:

  1. Now - http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=clothes&btnG=Search&as_qdr=all&lr=&as_filetype=
  2. Previously - http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=clothes&btnG=Search

Thought I’d post as it looked like an intersting little change over at Google.

]]> http://www.mercurythread.co.uk/blog/googlecom-any-time-any-language-any-file/2009/02/feed/ 0 Why on Earth is the Google Hompage Black? http://www.mercurythread.co.uk/blog/why-on-earth-is-the-google-hompage-black/2008/03/ http://www.mercurythread.co.uk/blog/why-on-earth-is-the-google-hompage-black/2008/03/#comments Sat, 29 Mar 2008 13:38:50 +0000 Michael http://www.mercurythread.co.uk/blog/why-on-earth-is-the-google-hompage-black/2008/03/29/ One of the most consistent things in modern life is the Google interface. Every so often they tweak it here and tweak it there but its always a Google logo with a search box on a white background. They’ve decided to highlight an energy conservation project called “Earth Hour” – where people are supposed to turn their lights off between 8 & 9pm today (March 29th 2008) – by making the Google.co.uk homepage all in black!

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I think its pretty awful – more info on why can be found at http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en_uk/earthhour/.

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