Author Topic: My Google Search Results Page Format Changed. Looks like spam site now.  (Read 1109 times)

slackmax

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A week or so ago, my results page format has blue-lined rectangles enclosing the individual results. I thought maybe it was some sort of malware, but the internet says that Google is selecting people at random and changing their formats!

I can still click on the result and go to the appropriate webpage, but I like the old format better.

Anyone else have this happen? 

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Sibley

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Re: My Google Search Results Page Format Changed. Looks like spam site now.
« Reply #1 on: November 26, 2019, 02:57:08 PM »
I wonder if there is something buried in the settings that would change it back?

slackmax

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Re: My Google Search Results Page Format Changed. Looks like spam site now.
« Reply #2 on: November 27, 2019, 06:00:26 AM »
I wonder if there is something buried in the settings that would change it back?

Thanks, Sibley. I'm using an old version of Firefox (long story) and when I go into the settings screen, there's nothing that lets me affect the results layout.   Oh well, at least the functionality is the same as before.   

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Re: My Google Search Results Page Format Changed. Looks like spam site now.
« Reply #3 on: November 27, 2019, 12:08:01 PM »
When I Google blue boxes around links on Google, it seems to point to a browser plug-in.

 

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