You might know that I’m a big fan of searching Google Groups to solve technical problems. It looks like Google decided that Groups aren’t that important and to hide it on the default Google website:
You have to click on more to open a small window with more search options to see a link to Groups. Well, I guess that Google Video is much more important for most people and Google probably wants to promote Google Video as an alternative to YouTube.
Still, I always switched between web search and Groups search by using the link above the search edit control and I have to change my search behavior.
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[…] One of our readers, JoaquÃn Bernal, was nice enough to build and send me a small Chickenfoot script to unhide the Google Groups link I mentioned in the previous blog posting. Chickenfoot is similar to Greasemonkey but with a much simpler syntax. Here is the Chickenfoot script to unhide the link: […]
[…] A couple weeks ago, Google decided to yank the Groups link from its search pages and hide it under a new “more »” link. This pissed off a few people (including me), but given that this was a change to core search UI of Google, I’m surprised the reaction wasn’t stronger. Maybe the extra mouse click just isn’t a big deal for most people. […]