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February 13, 2003
Google "Enhances Results"

Has anyone noticed the "enhanced results" that are appearing when you do a Google search? Am I the only (un)lucky recipient of this?

When I do a simple search for "Heathrow", a side-frame suddenly appears containing what are purportedly "enhanced results". They just look like ads to me. This is the first time Google has ever annoyed me. No one else seems to have the problem, perhaps I inadvertently downloaded some crapware that caused this. Could it be related to the Google search bar? I want it gone.
Posted at 8:28 AM | Comments (6)
Category: Internet



 Comments on this article:

You are not alone! This (+ the "search assistant" ) is driving me nuts. 1/2 the Google screen is now occupied by junk. Worse than pop ups. I've e-mailed my complaints to Google. Shades of Alta Vista. I guess the old 'just the search, ma'am" Google is gone. Goodbye simplicity, hello capitalism.

 Posted by: Alex on February 16, 2003 1:56 PM

Travesty! A violation of the sanctity that is Google! Damn it!

 Posted by: on February 17, 2003 12:39 AM

Not google, various DLL's

I am not sure what is going on

Lock down IE 5.5 and 6.x

 Posted by: atrssu on February 18, 2003 9:40 PM

Here is a lot of information about this problem.
Google knows about this!

http://www.net-integration.net/cgi-bin/forums/ikonboard.cgi?s=3e3f0efe47d7ffff;act=ST;f=32;t=1377

 Posted by: Click here for info on Scumware on February 21, 2003 10:59 AM

This is not from Google--you have scumware on your system. All of those results are paid links. See this thread for how to remove it:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=e617cda.0302191934.63800c17%40posting.google.com&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dgoogleguy%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26scoring%3Dd%26selm%3De617cda.0302191934.63800c17%2540posting.google.com%26rnum%3D1
Some other links that might help:
More info on this junk:
http://www.doxdesk.com/parasite/SubSearch.html
The Spybot forums talking about removing this:
http://www.net-integration.net/cgi-bin/forums/ikonboard.cgi?s=3e3f0efe47d7ffff;act=ST;f=32;t=1377

Hope this helps--please spread the word..
GoogleGuy

 Posted by: GoogleGuy on February 21, 2003 11:01 AM

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 Posted by: zip codes on March 15, 2003 4:49 PM