Comments on: Google home page

By: Dylan Lee

Dylan Lee — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 10:14:26 +0000

FWIW I use the FF searchbox 95% of the time. However all of my feeds and email are right there on my Google homepage, including coming across this very post. So to answer the question, the G homepage always gets at least a few (if not quite a few!) views from me every day even if I’m not searching.

By: Scott

Scott — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 20:56:04 +0000

If you use Opera, in the address bar you just type a g then a space and whatever you’re searching for. It comes like that straight out of the box, lovely. So to search for me goes “ctrl-T”, “g”, space, search_term_here.

I didn’t realise Google paid FireFox for that box, do they pay Opera too? Or is it an open source support sort of agreement.

By: Craig Howe

Craig Howe — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:32:18 +0000

‘One hit wonder’ ? LOL should we have an RSS feed on the top header also? :) Nice touch btw

By: Vin

Vin — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:57:07 +0000

That’s a cool tip!

By: rowan

rowan — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 01:41:00 +0000

Glen -

In Firefox Ctrl-K drops you directly into the search box, which saves you from typing “gg” each time.

:-)

By: Glen Barnes

Glen Barnes — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 01:13:13 +0000

I don’t actually use the search box in Firefox. I have found it far easier to set up search shortcuts in the address bar. To do a Google search I use Ctrl-L and then type “gg search-term” and for a Google New Zealand local search “gnz search-term”. You can set up basically any search engine with shortcut access codes.

By: Tim Howell

Tim Howell — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 01:10:03 +0000

Rowan - I can’t answer your question about the traffic that’s generated from browser search boxes, but it’s interesting to note that Hitwise estimated Google was responsible for just under 66% of all US searches in December 2007 - see http://www.hitwise.com/press-center/hitwiseHS2004/us-google-sets-new-high-08012008.php.