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cguy
June 7th, 2011, 07:48 PM
1. They've handicapped their mobile site: no more links towards Images and etc. Now you have to open the mobile browser's address bar and replace "www" with "images". Annoying!

2. They removed the "define:<word>" search. Horrible stuff!

And there may be more, but these two are the worst.

cgroza
June 7th, 2011, 10:26 PM
The define:<word> works here. I get the definition on top of the other search hits.

BandD
June 8th, 2011, 03:30 AM
both of these things work fine for me....

cguy
June 8th, 2011, 04:09 AM
The define:<word> works here. I get the definition on top of the other search hits.
It used to work differently: you were presented a page with definitions aggregated from many sites. Now, you have to click around to see alternate definitions.

Paqman
June 8th, 2011, 08:32 AM
It used to work differently: you were presented a page with definitions aggregated from many sites. Now, you have to click around to see alternate definitions.

You still get that as your top hit, now you get links too.

Example (http://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=define%3A+sausage)

robsoles
June 8th, 2011, 09:48 AM
1. They've handicapped their mobile site: no more links towards Images and etc. Now you have to open the mobile browser's address bar and replace "www" with "images". Annoying!

2. They removed the "define:<word>" search. Horrible stuff!

And there may be more, but these two are the worst.

The uproar would be fabulous if they did that.

I couldn't get a limited go out of Google by any of three different methods I could use to access their site's search functionality - looked to me like the android 'home screen' search box took me to www.google.com (http://www.google.com) so I went to http://mobile.google.com, got redirected to m.google.com and had a screen full of stuff I could choose to use, I was getting annoyed till I spotted the 'search' button :)

define:<word> was good, images was a 'tab' above and preferences were in the footer. I got sick of looking at it on the small screen and looked back up at my rather larger desktop monitor :biggrin: