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Google Trying a Little Harder: “Make me your homepage” Javascript

Posted in Computers & Technology, Search, Google by Elliott Back on September 6th, 2005.

Google now asks the question “Will you by mine?” whenever it thinks a user on its main website is using a browser search service other than its own. The little ajaxian form appears as follows:

Unfortunately, in my IE7 beta, Google *is* the default search service, so this thing shouldn’t ever appear there!

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4 Responses to 'Google Trying a Little Harder: “Make me your homepage” Javascript'

  1. » Is This A Popup?  InsideGoogle » part of the Blog News Channel said:

    on September 7th, 2005 at 7:54 pm

    […] Has anyone seen this? Elliott Back has a screenshot of Google asking, via an Ajax overlay, if you want to make it the default search engine. Now, while the positioning is unobtrusive, wouldn’t this technically count as a popup? Tough call. Posted: 9/7/2005 by Nathan Weinberg in: […]

  2. » Página de Inicio said:

    on September 9th, 2005 at 3:39 am

    […] Según informa Elliot Back, parece ser que Google está lanzando una especie de layers en los que incita a poner Google como página de inicio. […]

  3. ryan said:

    on June 27th, 2006 at 1:07 pm

    sort ur wigs out lads and gimmie a job! im wicked on a pc but i just need a job in computers

  4. khaliya said:

    on December 16th, 2006 at 5:07 pm

    i love gahooyoogle cause it helps me find everything i want

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