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December 9, 2011

Google Search Pages Hide +1 Buttons

+1 buttons no longer clutter Google's search results pages. They're now displayed when you mouse over the results for most of the pages. If you have +1'd a page, the button will be displayed by default to highlight the result.



In other search-related news, the preferences page has a new interface with custom controls, while the advanced search page switched back to the old interface. Maybe someone read this post and decided to fix the drop-down lists.


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  1. AnonymousDecember 9, 2011 at 6:35 PM

    Glad to hear it!

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  2. RoyDecember 10, 2011 at 10:05 AM

    Good, I prefer not to have them rammed down my throat - if I want to +1 a page I will but it is good to have less visual chaff in the search results.

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  3. Brad TaylorDecember 10, 2011 at 2:25 PM

    For the last week or so I haven't had them at all in my search results - not even on hover. Not really sure why that is. That said, it's a bit weird to +1 something before you've even clicked the link to find out if it's +1 worthy. That never made sense to me. I am still seeing results that I have +1'd elsewhere. That's enough. And agree that less clutter is good.

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  4. santhoshDecember 13, 2011 at 7:25 AM

    Thank you for the auspicious writeup...

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  5. crest whitening stripsDecember 14, 2011 at 11:06 AM

    Good - gets rid of some of the clutter

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