From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RvUuT-0008CH-Ul for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:23:42 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DB760E063C; Thu, 9 Feb 2012 14:23:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bk0-f53.google.com (mail-bk0-f53.google.com [209.85.214.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76C54E063C for ; Thu, 9 Feb 2012 14:22:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkcjk7 with SMTP id jk7so1838698bkc.40 for ; Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:22:28 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=F39UyeqTN4rBWvZ79/gTzZ+p/n5yCvzuJN5o85wDvbM=; b=Zw5ACrSkjWodZq088Bb95GpCEsub94eWJ3puo/obuHBTnJ0oAvAbLrdHD9OaDPic40 sHNRAfiFYTZCoPNcfyIyvKQSefKWulyVnIG5+EGDn1RZlqoXvGDAHXHVuwd4Eksi+Nas TPtTaSZLtpx4JArQF+mexpqSHgj5KmJ0HchNk= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.154.211 with SMTP id p19mr828425bkw.130.1328797348368; Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:22:28 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.205.124.129 with HTTP; Thu, 9 Feb 2012 06:22:28 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20120209134823.GB25230@syscon7.inet> References: <20120208182430.GA18060@syscon7.inet> <4F32BEC1.7020208@hadt.biz> <20120208185826.GB18060@syscon7.inet> <4F338413.2050200@hadt.biz> <20120209134823.GB25230@syscon7.inet> Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 09:22:28 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Google - can not open any link From: Michael Mol To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 5160c174-c8bc-4442-867f-18d1c9a8990c X-Archives-Hash: b321fd4d3983768dfd2c1421b7034316 On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 8:48 AM, Joseph wrote: > On 02/09/12 09:30, Michael Hampicke wrote: >>> >>> You are right on; I disable Java in firefox and now can open links in >>> google search. >> >> >> As I said, I have disabled cookies and javascript for goolge.de (using >> cookiemonster an noscript). But as I sometimes use google maps, I allow >> javascript on google.com and then use google.com for maps - with cookies >> disalbed. And here I have the same issue as you have, I cannot open the >> links, but the strange thing is: it's not all the time, sometimes it >> works, sometimes it does not. >> >> Who knows what google guys were doing. Maybe they left a screw driver in >> there or something :) >> > > I just got a hint from Gentoo forum. =C2=A0It seems to me others got hit = by the > same issue. > ----quote------ > Google is getting crappier and crappier by the day. What happened to the > lean, mean, simple search engine that everyone fell in love with? Now > they're just bloating it with unnecessary javascript crap. > > Hmm, one idea: Do you accept cookies from google? I don't. If you don't > either, try activating them and see if it works then. > ------end quote------ > > I'm switching to Bing search engine. It seems to me Google is getting evi= l > now. I very much like DuckDuckGo. It uses Bing as its back-end, but applies filters, etc, to clean out known spam and copy-and-ad sites. If I can't find something with DuckDuckGo, then I try Google as a followup. (DDG doesn't handle long literals very well; queries for things like long model numbers don't usually work out.) You can also use it as a calculator, like you can Google, but it defers calculations (and other relevant things) to Wolfram Alpha. Queries on some other things will quote verbatim Wikipedia, and you can click through to get to the WP page. It's very nice. --=20 :wq