What do the old version look like?

What does the new one look like?

How did I find out?

Well sometimes the best things in life come to you because of a fluke. This one is no exception. I had just finished installing Windows 7 on my laptop. Google’s site was having issues loading (it was on their end). When ever their servers go down Google it seems puts you back in the classic “http://google.com/ig” page. Because the first thing I do when setting up a computer is setting up my default page I hit “use this link as the default homepage”.

I never thought anything of it. I noticed that after a few days on my laptop I was still getting my old “IG” page. Where as my desktop and every other machine was not.

That got me thinking? Is it a cookie? I deleted all the cookies and that did not make a difference. I then looked at the URL in my browser. The first thing I noticed there was that there were a bunch of server side commands added on to the URL.

I then typed letter for letter the URL on my laptop into the URL on my desktop. Voila! That machine was now using the old theme. I then tried it on another machine just to make sure. I tried it on a Windows XP machine at work and it worked the exact same way.

So, if you want to get back the old “http://google.com/ig” type this:

http://www.google.ca/ig?hl=en&source=iglk

Is the “?hl=en&source=iglk” that makes the difference.

What do you think. Do you like the new or old version of the web page?

If I’ve missed anything email me the details please.

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