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The most annoying part is still there -- of the home page morphing into the search results page as soon as text is typed. It is a totally nonsensical design. 1

The most annoying part is still there -- of the home page morphing into the search results page as soon as text is typed. It is a totally nonsensical design. 1) Type stuff into google.com 2) Delete all the text You are now on a totally empty results page. Why is this a sensible design?

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detritus 9y ago
On top of that it's a constant perplexing hindrance for Luddites like myself who insist upon using the backspace key to navigate back a page, instead leaving me wondering why my search results page is refreshing instead. Every. Single. Time. I know, I know, it's my fault. But it's not.
- mortehu 9y ago
  You can also use Alt-LeftArrow, which works even if a text input field had focus.
  - detritus 9y ago
    I know, I know :) It's just muscle memory - I've been using backspace since '97 or so.
  - Sylos 9y ago
    Didn't Google even disable backspace to go back in Chrome somewhen last year? Or did they revert that again? And well, there's many keyboards out there with no right Alt, meaning that you have to use two hands to execute that shortcut. So, I really don't think, it's a good idea to try to force people away from using backspace, as bad of a key as it is to be using for this...
trvr 9y ago
This isn't happening for me. Try it in incognito mode, maybe?
- deckar01 9y ago
  They already turned instant search off. Without instant search it doesn't go to a results page when you start typing.
- unclesaamm 9y ago
  oh you're right! it must have been cached.
beambot 9y ago
Do people frequently use the Google Homepage for search? I've always just used the address / search bar via Ctrl+K shortcuts for instant searching. Why waste time going to google.com directly?
- konpikwastaken 9y ago
  TIL: CTRL+K shortcut is F6 + TYPE
  - Ajedi32 9y ago
    No, that'd be more like Ctrl+L. Ctrl+K is specifically for your default search engine, wheres Ctrl+L and F6 work for links and other search engines as well.

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detritus 9y ago

On top of that it's a constant perplexing hindrance for Luddites like myself who insist upon using the backspace key to navigate back a page, instead leaving me wondering why my search results page is refreshing instead. Every. Single. Time. I know, I know, it's my fault. But it's not.

mortehu 9y ago
You can also use Alt-LeftArrow, which works even if a text input field had focus.
- detritus 9y ago
  I know, I know :) It's just muscle memory - I've been using backspace since '97 or so.
- Sylos 9y ago
  Didn't Google even disable backspace to go back in Chrome somewhen last year? Or did they revert that again? And well, there's many keyboards out there with no right Alt, meaning that you have to use two hands to execute that shortcut. So, I really don't think, it's a good idea to try to force people away from using backspace, as bad of a key as it is to be using for this...

trvr 9y ago

This isn't happening for me. Try it in incognito mode, maybe?

deckar01 9y ago
They already turned instant search off. Without instant search it doesn't go to a results page when you start typing.
unclesaamm 9y ago
oh you're right! it must have been cached.

beambot 9y ago

Do people frequently use the Google Homepage for search? I've always just used the address / search bar via Ctrl+K shortcuts for instant searching. Why waste time going to google.com directly?

konpikwastaken 9y ago
TIL: CTRL+K shortcut is F6 + TYPE
- Ajedi32 9y ago
  No, that'd be more like Ctrl+L. Ctrl+K is specifically for your default search engine, wheres Ctrl+L and F6 work for links and other search engines as well.