Windows 10: Google Serving Win 10 Edge Browser Users the Old-Style Search Engine

Yup, can confirm. Looking at it now, I actually kind of miss it.

 

I'm not seeing it (the black bar):

 

Yes, the new style has come back for me *Biggrin

 

Hi there

For people like me who HATE modern UI types of applications -- I hate tabbed browsing, prefer Menus and like re-sizeable windows I actually like the old Google search look.

As I do most of my browsing on Linux with Firefox I can't really say that this bothers me in the slightest. FF allows Menus - AND tabbed browsing if that's what you like.

I only use IE 11 if I'm using SKY GO otherwise I tend to use windows in a VM anyway. Basically email / Office and a few corporate logons (SAP Gui for example) are the only main reason I'm still using Windows these days. There's still NO contest between Ms Office and the rest -- Outlook IMO also is still nr 1 email client too so I still have a use for Windows - although less these days than I used to while the rest of the Office suite can't be beaten - especially EXCEL with good Internet queries etc etc.

I have also a few legacy apps running on an XP VM and a W7 VM for test purposes - otherwise I'm probably on Linux 80 % of the time now - especially as all my multi-media servers run on the NAS (PLEX, SQUEEZEBOXSERVER, MPD - Music player Daemon) and my backups etc are stored there. I can access the VM's also stored on the NAS via mobile phone or a laptop whether running Windows or Linux.

However in things like appearance etc it's all a matter of preference -- what I would like to say --PLEASE DEVELOPERS - get away from fixed pixel sizes in your developments - sometimes when using a large proper 4K Ultra HD monitor the texts are far TOO TINY and there's almost nothing that can be done to change them. Some apps might change title bar text size etc but you still get TINY text in say a command bar etc. Shouldn't be too hard to program less sloppily assuming everybody has eagle quality vision and small monitors !!!!

Cheers
jimbo

 

Its gone for me too. Maybe Google were reading this forum *Wink

 

Gone away, yes *Biggrin

Makes no sense, it just appeared for one whole day...xD

 

Not to criticize your tastes, but what is it that you hate about tabbed browsing?
*Smile

 

Since upgrading to windows 10
I dumped Google completely for searches
As I find Bing does the same job
All long With Edge they both work well
Also as soon as my McAfee which I paid for runs out I will switch to Windows Defender

 

At one point I wanted to really like Duck Duck Go (just so I could REALLY rid of Google). And I've given Bing a shot in the past, though perhaps now it's improved. But no matter what, it seems that Google finds things that others don't. And even though I hate geo/location-search info being collected, you can't beat the regional searching.

I've had very good luck with Windows Defender (or MSE for that matter)

 

Huh?

No idea what this thread is all about. here is what I get when I access google in MS Edge 13.

 

If you read back you will see the problem has been resolved
It is now working as it should

 

Okay, so we may never know what was going on.

 

Probably not

For some reason Google was showing an old version of the home page, might be more info on the Google forums, but I don't check them anymore

 

Go back and read the OP.. it's all mentioned there.