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Try out Google's new interface
Awhile back I posted about the new search results interface Google was supposedly testing. I can definitely confirm that today. This blog post describes how to set a new cookie in Firefox that will force Google to display the new results page for you. Since the instructions are a little off (and took me some fiddling to make them to work), here's my version:
Update: In the comments reader
Whosawhatsis has posted an easier way to accomplish the same thing without installing any extensions. Try that
first.
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Download and install the Add N Edit Cookies extension. Restart Firefox.
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Run the extension by going to Tools > Cookie Editor.
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Type "google" into the box at the top and click "Filter/Refresh". Scroll through the list and look for a cookie called "PREF" (Disclaimer: I don't know what this cookie is really for, so modify it at your own risk!).
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If it exists, double-click on it and change the "Content" field to the following (remove the line break first):
ID=fb7740f107311e46:TM=1142683332:
LM=1142683332:S=fNSw6ljXTzvL3dWu -
If it does not exist, you must create it. Click on Add. Enter PREF for the Name and the bold string above for Content. Set the Domain to .google.com and / for the Path. Set the expiration date to whatever you want--pick "Expire at end of session" if you only want to see the "new" Google until the next time you launch Firefox. Otherwise set a date far in the future.
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Click Save and then close out of the Cookie Editor. The next time you search Google you should see the new search results page. If you get sick of it, you can just delete to cookie and it'll go away.
Comments
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Subscribe to commentsJasonMar 27th 2006 12:46PM
Does anyone know how to get the quick preview options to show up? I had that Google interface for a while but cant find the page to get them back. The preview is a really nice feature!
WhosawhatsisMar 28th 2006 5:50PM
"Danie: To make it permanent, just set the expiration date to a long time in the future."
If you modify the preferences, it will set the cookie again with an expiration date over 30 years in the future (virtually permanent). You can trigger this by switching to personalized homepage.
apoogleApr 14th 2006 8:03AM
I used it in IE.
Yes,it worked.
But when I try seach something in a new IE window,
the old style appeared.
KyraApr 30th 2006 8:37PM
Cool! This worked for me too!
javascript:alert(document.cookie="PREF=ID=fb7740f107311e46:TM=1142683332:LM=1142683332:S=fNSw6ljXTzvL3dWu;path=/;domain=."+location.href.split('/')[2].substr(location.href.split('/')[2].indexOf('google')));
hippyAug 11th 2006 10:26AM
my results show everything but the stats
AustinMar 22nd 2010 9:46PM
It is most definitly not a hoax by any means. I have this running in Chrome beta and IE8. However, I have yet to be able to get this working with FF3.6. I have tried both Edit Cookies add-on to manually edit the cookie and tired every variation of the javascript injection for the address bar. None of these seem to work.
Patrick AraceFeb 6th 2007 12:03PM
Huh? I tried all of the cookies for Firefox and every single one just displayed a box with: "The page at Google says" and then whatever the cookie was. I'd really like to try the new interface but I just can't get it working.
pancho1986Apr 11th 2007 11:07PM
it's an hoax like one guy said before
look at the guy, have the fireworks application open
it's an graphic editor if you don't know it yet
the start button was totally hacked
and look at the winamp taskbar button it doesn't have any letters
are covered with a badass gradient
i think it's a photo trick. sorry if i was rude, it will be great if google implement that dropdown menu, anyway