On 8/21/05, Stewart Stremler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> begin quoting Carl Lowenstein as of Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 10:39:08PM -0700:
> > On 8/21/05, Todd Walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On 8/21/05, Carl Lowenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > first page of results is as expected. The second and subsequent pages
> > > > drop all but the first search term.
> > >
> > > Maybe something about the JavaScript settings? Google seems to fancy
> > > that kind of thing.
> >
> > Not that I can notice. Besides, Google is (I think) older than
> > JavaScript. I would not be surprised if Gmail depended on JavaScript.
> > on the other hand.
>
> Gmail *used* to _require_ javascript. It no longer requires it, but
> you need javascript to take advantage of some of the features.
>
> Google Maps, however, requires it.
>
> > An interesting further data point: Using lynx to invoke Google. The
> > second page of results has the same search terms as the first page.
>
> What if you tweak the browser-identifier string?
>
> > Of course, the user interface is not so nice, but one could get used to it.
>
> Especially if the alternative is "it doesn't work right".
>
> -Stewart "You might want to try links as well as lynx." Stremler
More information, leading to confusion: I set up another unprivileged
user. When logged in as "me", Google search works as it should,
keeping all the search terms for pages after the first. When logged
in as "cdl" Google has the anomalous behavior noted above. So
somewhere there is a configuration file that has gone bad.
By the way, there are several notes in the Google discussion board
concerning this problem. I deduce from reading them that it was first
observed some time Saturday August 20.
carl
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