# What the heck have they done to Google?????

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-heck-have-they-done-to-google/602661>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 12, 2011, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-heck-have-they-done-to-google/602661 "2011-11-12T01:49:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![ZenBeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@ZenBeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZenBeam)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2011, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-heck-have-they-done-to-google/602661/21 "2011-11-12T18:03:23Z")

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Maybe someone could right-click, select View Page Source, then edit that to remove the black bar, or change its color, and save it as a local page? I tried it, and could get the box where you enter search text to be black, but couldn’t get the title bar to be white.

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**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2011, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-heck-have-they-done-to-google/602661/22 "2011-11-12T23:40:33Z")

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> [@ZenBeam](#):
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> Maybe someone could right-click, select View Page Source, then edit that to remove the black bar, or change its color, and save it as a local page?

There are plugins, such as [Stylish](http://userstyles.org/stylish), that adjust stylesheets in that way.

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**Author:** ![FeAudrey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7feea3/32.png) [@FeAudrey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FeAudrey)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2011, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-heck-have-they-done-to-google/602661/23 "2011-11-13T01:18:30Z")

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I had the Google News advanced search bookmarked as my entry point. Now it redirects to the news page, with advanced search (minus a feature or two, such as ordering results) as a pop-up.

[thread hijack]And the Yahoo! home page (which I’ve used, on and off, since the “akebono” days) has also changed its layout, so that you see the news Yahoo! wants you to see, instead of what you customized the page to see.[/thread hijack]

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