Dan

Thanks very much for posting these Google tweaks.  Did you discover them 
on your own by trial and error, or can you point us to some docs.  I have 
been playing around with this, and it indeed seems useful in creating more 
customized results.





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On Tue, 14 Feb 2012, Dan Rossi wrote:

> I forgot to mention, that if you actually want to go to the google home page,
> and not have "google instant" on, you can create a favorite of:
> 
> www.google.com/search?complete=0
> 
> This will take you to the search page as if you had gone to www.google.com
> then clicked on the "screen reader" link.
> 
> Also, if you click on the screen reader link, you can then see the options
> link for setting your search preferences.
> 
> Lastly, there are a bunch of tokens, like the complete=0 that you can add to
> the URL in your favorites.  For example, I prefer 20 hits per page, no google
> instant, and open links in a new window.  For that, my favorite looks like
> this:
> 
> http://www.google.com/search?complete=0&num=20&newwindow=1
> 
> Now, when I go to that URL, google instant is turned off, and when I search, I
> get 20 results per page, and when I click on a result link it opens in a new
> window.
> 
> Hope that is somewhat helpful for folks who want preferences, but don't want
> to deal with the preferences page or cookies.
> 
> -- 
> Blue skies.
> Dan Rossi
> Carnegie Mellon University.
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