"Cached" & "Similar" links missing on Google search results

Ya i guess your right buddy...

You should try changing your USERAGENT to look like your using IE6 falcon and then you might have the better layout back....

I found a copy of IE4.4 (The EXE (724k)) and i ran that and went to google.com AND I HAD THE FIRST ORIGINAL LAYOUT THEY EVER HAD YEARS BACK!!! (BOY WAS IT NICE)

Text looked quite good,etc........ THE LOADING OF SITES WAS EXCELLENT!! (FASTER THAN WITH IE6,I WAS DOING GOOGLE SEARCHES AND IT WAS COMING BACK BLAZINGLY FAST WITH RESULTS!!)

Only thing is,alot of sites wont allow thier sites to be loaded with IE4.4 (I got a 401.2 error on alot of sites (Access denied) and other formatting issues (I guess IE4 doesnt properly work with the IE6 files (Ie5 does 100% (I tried that yesterday)))

It was quite interesting though..... I would think putting your UA to IE6 would be enough to get the older google layout you like.....

I would love to change my UA to IE4.4 .. Google looks AWESOME on that UA!!! (And actually using IE6 instead of IE4 would be quite the thing!)


List of IE strings

http://www.useragentstring.com/pages...et%20Explorer/



EDIT:

Using IE5.0 user agent gives you the ORIGINAL GOOD GOOGLE LAYOUT FROM YEARS BACK ALSO!

I tried it using this page: http://www.hashemian.com/tools/browser-simulator.htm

With this url: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=hello

I just added this to my User agent: "MSIE 5.0" and when i goto google i get the original GOOD LAYOUT THEY STARTED WITH!!!!!

Hmmm, appearently Google is playing w/ the layout again. Since last night, all my computers have been displaying a new Google page with a black band on top where the filters for Web, Images, News, etc. are located. And, the "Cached" link comes back!

Oh boy! Hope Google will just stick to what works and stop messing w/ it so much.

Noticed the black band this morning.

Yes, I've got the new layout with the black band today as we.. Looks like it has gone worldwide.

At least they have the good sense of bringing back the cached link.

The link i gave you Falcon DOES NOT HAVE THAT DISGUSTING BLACK BAR :)