| Is there any way to get the top nav bar back? | hatrickp | 9/4/09 8:28 PM | I've just noticed today that the top navigation bar is gone on search result pages and only appears on the home page. (The bar with the links to jump between web / image / news / groups / etc results). This was EXTREMELY useful and I have to say I'm |
| Re: Is there any way to get the top nav bar back? | dwight.stegall | 9/4/09 8:33 PM | Web Images Videos Maps News Shopping Gmail more ▼Groups Books Scholar Finance Blogs YouTube Calendar Photos Documents Reader Sites even more » are on this search results page http://www.google.com/search?q=google you must be having system problems |
| Re: Is there any way to get the top nav bar back? | Bweasel | 9/4/09 8:34 PM | Exactly. I liked being able to swap quickly between web results, image results and news items; it was so convenient that it makes no sense to change it! And we're not the only ones to miss it, these other 2 threads here (and there's probably more) co |
| Re: Is there any way to get the top nav bar back? | Bweasel | 9/4/09 8:38 PM | Dwight, your reply wasn't up when I posted mine. I tried the link you gave and the options I would usually see (Web Images Videos Maps News Shopping Gmail etc) were still missing. |
| Re: Is there any way to get the top nav bar back? | bluequoll | 9/4/09 8:55 PM | Interesting. I see the top nav bar OK on first and subsequent search results pages. Tried it in FF 3.5.2, IE 7 and Chrome, no problems. Could it be something restricted to a Google local portal? I'm accessing Google through http://google.com.au . |
| Re: Is there any way to get the top nav bar back? | Pawsey | 9/4/09 9:07 PM | Ok, something, although the tiredness of my mind, is no doubt making connections. On the main portal page of google. They have changed the logo to " unexplained phenomenon " Now if google are playing around trying to be amusing, by this navigatio |
| Re: Is there any way to get the top nav bar back? | Lottie | 9/5/09 12:20 AM | Yesterday my google search was fine and today mine's the same as the person who's posted this problem. I often switch between web and image search, for example, using those links normally at the top. Now, the only way i can see of doing this is to |
| Re: Is there any way to get the top nav bar back? | Lottie | 9/5/09 12:30 AM | In addition to the above, I am using FF3.5.2 I have noticed that if i use the options web, images, or mail - the navbar disappears. If i use the other options (eg. mail, news, shopping) it does not disappear. I have 2 separate computers and both wer |
| Re: Is there any way to get the top nav bar back? | methode | 9/5/09 12:32 AM | Lottie, Could you paste here a result page's URL from your browser's address bar, please? |
| Re: Is there any way to get the top nav bar back? | Lottie | 9/5/09 12:49 AM | hello Methode :) I've put some pics on tinypic so you can see what's happening. Here's what i'm getting: Main google search page: http://i30.tinypic.com/2wmq544.jpg I type in cabbages (and press enter): http://i30.tinypic.com/255v1ud.jpg This is |
| Re: Is there any way to get the top nav bar back? | methode | 9/5/09 1:15 AM | If you access the below search result page, does it has navlinks? http://www.google.com/search?&hl=en&source=hp&q=cabbages&btnG=Google+Search |
| Re: Is there any way to get the top nav bar back? | Lottie | 9/5/09 1:16 AM | No it doesn't. |
| Re: Is there any way to get the top nav bar back? | JacobL | 9/5/09 1:37 AM | This definitely seems to be some sort of a server problem, and only in the UK (Europe?). I get the no-nav-bar most of the time searching from the UK, but interestingly sometimes the nav bar appears. If I repeatedly search, changing the search query s |
| Re: Is there any way to get the top nav bar back? | Lottie | 9/5/09 2:19 AM | It does seem to be UK related - I tried to search behind hidemyass proxy (plonks me in the USA) and got as far as searching for cabbages, as before, and still had my links at the top before google decided it didn't like my proxy and hung up on an ima |
| Re: Is there any way to get the top nav bar back? | Arcom | 9/5/09 2:47 AM | Just to add to what's been said above, it's happening to me too. I've also only noticed it since the UFO appeared on the home page! I'm based in the UK. The navbar (the 'div' tag is id'd as 'gbar') is there on any of the search flavours (eg web, ne |
| Re: Is there any way to get the top nav bar back? | AdamBT | 9/5/09 3:08 AM | I've got this problem as well. http://jaran.de/adam/google.jpg is a screenshot So when I load up http://google.co.uk (or .com, .nl) I have the "web images videos maps" tabs However, after doing a search they sometimes disappear. Last night it whenever |
| Re: Is there any way to get the top nav bar back? | Lottie | 9/5/09 3:13 AM | Mine appears to have righted itself :-D |
| Re: Is there any way to get the top nav bar back? | thebluemask | 9/5/09 4:27 AM | Weird - I've just started getting it too using Opera 10. |
| Re: Is there any way to get the top nav bar back? | nickp87 | 9/5/09 4:55 AM | Started getting the same probllems last night, i can search for certain words and still get the image results but most don't work. I have just tried IE and google seems to work ok on there but not in FF |
| Re: Is there any way to get the top nav bar back? | ndalyrose | 9/5/09 6:09 AM | Same problem here and I'm in the UK. UGH!!! hope it rights itself....i feel like i'm re-learning the internet. massively slowing me down. |
| Re: Is there any way to get the top nav bar back? | Dr Grip | 9/5/09 6:20 AM | I have the same problem too. I use FireFox but it happens on IE when I try it there as well. It works fine normally and it's the first time I have problem with this today. |
| Re: Is there any way to get the top nav bar back? | Paul RN | 9/5/09 6:28 AM | Same here for me in both Chrome and IE8. |
| Re: Is there any way to get the top nav bar back? | choirboy | 9/5/09 6:34 AM | Same for me in Firefox and IE 8. UK user. It needs sorting. |
| Re: Is there any way to get the top nav bar back? | Flamedramon | 9/5/09 8:13 AM | Same issue here on FireFox 3.5.. no menu atall. Works for "Web" results under IE8, however switching to any other results (Such as images), the menu dissapears again |
| Re: Is there any way to get the top nav bar back? | methode | 9/5/09 8:50 AM | ... these UFOs nowadays... *sigh* |
| Re: Is there any way to get the top nav bar back? | Kaleh | 9/5/09 9:44 AM | |
| Re: Is there any way to get the top nav bar back? | RazZziel | 9/5/09 11:22 AM | |
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| Re: Is there any way to get the top nav bar back? | Metalmurphy | 9/5/09 12:19 PM | |
| Re: Is there any way to get the top nav bar back? | Kaleh | 9/5/09 12:20 PM | |
| Re: Is there any way to get the top nav bar back? | HCruz | 9/5/09 1:39 PM | |
| Re: Is there any way to get the top nav bar back? | methode | 9/5/09 1:43 PM | |
| Re: Is there any way to get the top nav bar back? | dwight.stegall | 9/5/09 3:37 PM | |
| Re: Is there any way to get the top nav bar back? | Kaleh | 9/5/09 3:44 PM | |
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