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Re: Chrome redirecting to blank.html on search

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Post by donniezazen » Tue, Jul 03, 2012, 4:22 PM UTC

anonymous_mouse wrote: post #80

runn1ng wrote: post #16

From 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

I suggest trying DuckDuckGo, a search engine that doesn't track you. Same instructions but replace the search url with: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%s

I trust Google. I have been moving all my data to Google.

Re: Chrome redirecting to blank.html on search

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Post by napillo » Tue, Jul 03, 2012, 5:10 PM UTC

jrockway wrote: post #94

UnoriginalGuy wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That sounds anti-competitive. So is there a reason other search providers aren't being allowed the opportunity to support this functionality?

As far as I know, they are. When I type "en.wikipedia.org" and hit tab, I get auto-completions for Wikipedia content. Same for Bing.

It doesn't work. Google Instant fails to work even after I added the suggested fix...

{google:baseURL}search?{google:RLZ}{google:acceptedSuggestion}{google:originalQueryForSuggestion}{google:searchFieldTrialParameter}sourceid=chrome&ie={inputEncoding}&q=%s

Re: Chrome redirecting to blank.html on search

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Post by pkasting » Tue, Jul 03, 2012, 5:14 PM UTC

skrebbel wrote: post #63

pkasting wrote: post #44

Regarding all the suggestions to change search engines: Deleting the Google search entry is not an action that can easily be undone, and it will have drastic consequences, such as permanently disabling suggestions and instant for omnibox searches. Creating an alternate entry with the same URL does NOT suffice -- you can't manually enable any of this functionality on the alternate entry. If you're having this bug, I s…

Thanks for your openness. I must admit to being slightly amazed that Google would add an irreversible-delete-button to a consumer facing app, without appropriate warnings and whatnot. Is that just an oversight, or is it by design?

We don't allow you to delete your current default engine, but we do allow you to delete other engines, because you should be able to get rid of things you don't want.

We used to have a "restore all settings" button that would fix this (among other things), but it disappeared in the preferences UI rewrite and though I've agitated for it to come back, it hasn't.

Re: Chrome redirecting to blank.html on search

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Post by pkasting » Tue, Jul 03, 2012, 5:15 PM UTC

UnoriginalGuy wrote: post #77

pkasting wrote: post #44

Regarding all the suggestions to change search engines: Deleting the Google search entry is not an action that can easily be undone, and it will have drastic consequences, such as permanently disabling suggestions and instant for omnibox searches. Creating an alternate entry with the same URL does NOT suffice -- you can't manually enable any of this functionality on the alternate entry. If you're having this bug, I s…

That sounds anti-competitive. So is there a reason other search providers aren't being allowed the opportunity to support this functionality?

Other engines can access this functionality just fine (and do, as other people have mentioned). We simply don't have UI for you to manually tweak the relevant settings. (There's a bug on adding such UI, but it's low-priority, so no one's gotten to it.)

Re: Chrome redirecting to blank.html on search

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Post by epi0Bauqu » Tue, Jul 03, 2012, 5:57 PM UTC

Karunamon wrote: post #85

anonymous_mouse wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I suggest trying DuckDuckGo, a search engine that doesn't track you. Same instructions but replace the search url with: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%s

Unfortunately DDG's results suck. Nobody really cares about Google's 'tracking', people use them because they work.

We've made a lot of relevancy and speed improvements lately. If you have any specifics, we'd love to hear them. A good way is to try it for a week, collect all the ones that suck and send them to https://duckduckgo.com/feedback.html -- we're listening!

Re: Chrome redirecting to blank.html on search

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Post by jrockway » Tue, Jul 03, 2012, 6:19 PM UTC

nnethercote wrote: post #89

pkasting wrote: post #44

Regarding all the suggestions to change search engines: Deleting the Google search entry is not an action that can easily be undone, and it will have drastic consequences, such as permanently disabling suggestions and instant for omnibox searches. Creating an alternate entry with the same URL does NOT suffice -- you can't manually enable any of this functionality on the alternate entry. If you're having this bug, I s…

LOL. Somehow I'm not surprised that Chrome has an aneurysm if you delete the Google search entry.

Chrome itself is fine. There just isn't a UI item to add it back.

Re: Chrome redirecting to blank.html on search

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Post by sp332 » Tue, Jul 03, 2012, 6:50 PM UTC

pkasting wrote: post #44

Regarding all the suggestions to change search engines: Deleting the Google search entry is not an action that can easily be undone, and it will have drastic consequences, such as permanently disabling suggestions and instant for omnibox searches. Creating an alternate entry with the same URL does NOT suffice -- you can't manually enable any of this functionality on the alternate entry. If you're having this bug, I s…

It's not completely irreversible, but the fix involves deleting your other search engines. https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=84679#c4...

Re: Chrome redirecting to blank.html on search

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Post by Detrus » Tue, Jul 03, 2012, 7:25 PM UTC

sjm wrote: post #60

Detrus wrote: post #52

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Oh oops. Deleted the original, will need a fix for that too.

From the Chromium issue: "You can recreate the default entry by deleting your "Web Data" file out of your profile and restarting. Note that this will completely reset all your search engines."

That did it. Only it kept my custom Google engine and added the old one back, which I had to make default.

Re: Chrome redirecting to blank.html on search

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Post by jrockway » Tue, Jul 03, 2012, 7:40 PM UTC

rieter wrote: post #91

anonymous_mouse wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I suggest trying DuckDuckGo, a search engine that doesn't track you. Same instructions but replace the search url with: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%s

It's not a "search engine". It's a frontend to Bing.

And, presumably Bing tracks users and uses that data to improve its results. When you use DDG, you're just being tracked as "a DDG user" instead of "a Bing user with cookie=0x23987438743". (I don't know if that's true or not, but it's my current understanding of the situation.)

I think the problem with tracking is not the intrinsic action, but rather the fact we call it "tracking". Tracking is the technique you use to hunt and kill animals. Showing Java results to Java programmers and C# results to C# programmers is a little different from that...

Re: Chrome redirecting to blank.html on search

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Post by epi0Bauqu » Tue, Jul 03, 2012, 8:14 PM UTC

rieter wrote: post #91

anonymous_mouse wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I suggest trying DuckDuckGo, a search engine that doesn't track you. Same instructions but replace the search url with: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%s

It's not a "search engine". It's a frontend to Bing.

No it is not.