Why do dozens of people feel the need to say "+1" and "me too"? What could they possibly think they are adding to the discussion?
Chrome redirecting to blank.html on search
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Re: Chrome redirecting to blank.html on search
#32Why do dozens of people feel the need to say "+1" and "me too"? What could they possibly think they are adding to the discussion?
Because the bug-tracking system doesn't have a noise-free way to say "this affects me too", the way that bugzilla and launchpad do. And "this affects me too" can potentially provide useful information, to gauge how many people an issue affects and thus what priority to give it.
Re: Chrome redirecting to blank.html on search
#33Why do dozens of people feel the need to say "+1" and "me too"? What could they possibly think they are adding to the discussion?
Because the bug-tracking system doesn't have a noise-free way to say "this affects me too", the way that bugzilla and launchpad do. And "this affects me too" can potentially provide useful information, to gauge how many people an issue affects and thus what priority to give it.
Everyone has a google account so they can easily jump in (as opposed to bugzilla/launchpad), and soon the snowball effect kicks in.
This isn't the bug-tracking system, where it's supposed to be done by 'starring' an issue. Even there the concept is not emphasized enough so the same problem occurs.
Edit: someone else found the actual bug, the star is flush left in the blue issue header: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=84679
Re: Chrome redirecting to blank.html on search
#34Here's a permanent fix: - Click on the wrench icon in the upper right. Click "Settings". - Scroll down to "Set which search engine is used when searching from the omnibox." - Click Manage search engines - Scroll all the way down. You'll see three textboxes. Fill the three textboxes in like so: Googol Googol http://www.google.com/search?q=%s - Press enter, so that it adds Googol to your list of search engines. Scroll…
Google puts the tracking into the results now too, I used to use the 'Undirect' extension but it's currently losing the constant fight to properly detect and remove the tracking from the results. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dohbiijnjeiejifbgf...
This is a cool concept for many reasons... for example, I should use this to add the pws=0 'temporarily disable personalized search' parameter.
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#36Why do dozens of people feel the need to say "+1" and "me too"? What could they possibly think they are adding to the discussion?
Because the bug-tracking system doesn't have a noise-free way to say "this affects me too", the way that bugzilla and launchpad do. And "this affects me too" can potentially provide useful information, to gauge how many people an issue affects and thus what priority to give it.
Your answer explained why it is helpful to google. It does not explain why individuals post "me too," or why people are posting "me too" here on the HN page...
There is a similar behavior here on HN with nice- page / I-agree / congrats posts. I'm wary of a general guideline that I should only post to HN if I think the karma reward will be greater than X, but more often than not I think it helps make sure any of my posts actually increase the numerator in the SNRatio.
Re: Chrome redirecting to blank.html on search
#37From the giant thread, user BolshoiBrit: Found a work around: Add a new a search engine in wrench >> settings >> search "Manage Search Engines". Under "other search engines" add a new search engine using this address for the URL http://www.google.com/search?q=%s Name it "Google 2" or whatever you want. Works like a charm. -B
Thanks-- worked for me.
Re: Chrome redirecting to blank.html on search
#38Why don't people use firefox instead?
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#39Me too. I've been getting a lot of redirect timeouts on google searches the last couple of months. Their link tracking is flaky. Irritating as hell.
Hopefully the author of the Undirect extension will update it to work (remove redirects from search results), but it seems like a constant battle that he doesn't have much incentive to keep fighting.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dohbiijnjeiejifbgf...
Re: Chrome redirecting to blank.html on search
#40Here's a permanent fix: - Click on the wrench icon in the upper right. Click "Settings". - Scroll down to "Set which search engine is used when searching from the omnibox." - Click Manage search engines - Scroll all the way down. You'll see three textboxes. Fill the three textboxes in like so: Googol Googol http://www.google.com/search?q=%s - Press enter, so that it adds Googol to your list of search engines. Scroll…
If you're going to go to that much trouble anyway, may I suggest using:
https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=%s
A little bit more privacy, a little bit less trackable (And, for this crowd, I should point out it'll strip the search query from the referrer when you click the search links in the ssl version of Google's SERPs - so the Google Analytics (or any other analytics tools) won't have those inbound search query strings. The website marketer in me hates it when people do that, the privacy-loving-libertarian in me loves it…)