On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 12:57 AM, Lynda <[email protected]> wrote: > To others: I have multiple gmail accounts. Even though Google thinks > otherwise, I don't think I should have to sign in just to turn off crap > I don't want.
You don't have to log in. Google sets a cookie and settings like safe search, instant, etc. are recorded with the cookie. The problem you are seeing is that you have a different cookie on each browser. Make it a point to set your preferences on all browsers and you'll be fine. If that is a pain, log in. Switching between accounts is possible if they are Google Apps accounts. I have many Google Apps domains (google, whatexit, lopsanj, usenix, tomontime, and others) and switching easy. Switching between gmail accounts is... we don't talk about unannounced products. On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 7:53 AM, Derek J. Balling <[email protected]> wrote: > That's all subjective. I think the improvements are beneficial. If it can > perform the search algorithm > and display for me the results without my having to actually hit enter and > submit the results, that > makes the most efficient use of my time and energy. Also, you can easily see > if a search string > is taking you down the wrong path and can correct it in real-time, meaning no > type/submit/read/CRAP/re-type/re-submit cycle. If the web was never invented and Google Search was an application you installed on your PC (which is silly, because there would be no web pages to search for... but you get my drift), then the interface probably would have been "instant" from the start. After 10-20 years of HTML-based applications we've forgotten how dynamic PC apps used to be. I think the trend you will see in the future is for web sites to have UIs that are more like what we had pre-web (in a good way), less "fill out a form and click submit". That's sooo IBM mainframe! :-) And what the heck was that "reset" button on forms for? Did anyone ever use it? http://f00li5h.pin21.com/blog/Dear-Internet:-Take-the-reset-buttons-off-your-damn-forms.html Tom (not an official google spokesperson) -- Dec 4-9, Boston, Usenix LISA, www.usenix.org/event/lisa11 Dec 4-5, Boston, ACM CHIMIT, chimit.acm.org "Call for papers and talk proposals" open at LISA and CHIMIT! _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
