The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #145803 Message #3416983
Posted By: JohnInKansas
09-Oct-12 - 12:30 PM
Thread Name: Search problem
Subject: RE: Search problem
NB -
I guess I just hadn't noticed that the Google Advanced Search does appear down at the bottom of the results pages consistently now. Recollection is that I used another way of getting into it before an earlier round of "improvements," and that's what seems to have disappeared.
I have the Google Toolbar loaded, and they've made so many recent changes on the toolbar it must have confused me.
For searching mudcat with Google, I've been using the Google toolbar icon for "search on current site" and that may also do something different than if the search entry is coded as part of the query.
Another bit of weirdness is that in the results I usually right-click the link and "open in new tab" so that I can come back easily to the search results to try the next one; but recently many of the links insist on "open in new window" and the "new tab" choice doesn't appear. There seems to be a multiplicity of ideas about what "new window" means, and some links don't allow you to go back to the search results page either by using the Back button or by closing the new window. Some times one works, and sometimes it's the other, but often its neither. There don't seem to be any problems with the links that allow opening a new tab.
There is the possibility that the inability to get back to the original search results is a Windows artifact rather than just a Google thing, but the evidence is "vague" at best. "Crashes" (ABENDS) in Internet Explorer are annoying, but crashes in Windows Explorer when I get busy moving files around are approaching "unacceptable" frequencies. I'm pretty sure I know what causes the problems with WinExplorer, but don't have a theory as yet on how that might affect IE; and of course Mickey is no help.
John