Edited 5/1/06: As pointed out by Peter, it looks like A9 doesn’t include either the standard Google search or the Google Images search as options. It’s not locale related, as his experience matches mine. Guess I’m going back to google.com directly, although I’ll miss the parallel searches.
Before I start let me explain why I use A9: I get a kick out of seeing the images that come up for my searches, sometimes they’re just ridiculous. The text results show up on the left, and the image results on the right.
It looks like A9 just switched the default engine for my searches from Google to Live. Google has been relegated to the “More choices…” menu. I have nothing against Live, exactly, however I don’t really dig how it was just changed without a user prompt.
The real suck of this, though, is that with Google being a later option than Images, Google search results now appear to the right of the images instead of to the left, which is just plain silly.
While it wasn’t hard to find in “Help”, the method for changing the order of the result boxes is in a non-intuitive place: You can change the order of the search result boxes by going to the “Add/Remove” option of “More Choices…”. Problem solved I guess. Still, an irritating development that I’ll chalk up to the “anti-user user interface movement”.
May 1st, 2006 at 4:30 am
And now it’s even worse (as of 1 may 2006). I can’t find the Image-search capability no more at all at the A9-site. It seems to have disappeared completely. Also the Google-option you discribe above is no more available in the “more columns” section.
Or is this a Locale-specific setting? At least I’m not able to see it anymore (in The Netherlands). Just as you, I found it very helpfull and almost all the time also amusing to see what images relate to a specific search-question.
Too bad A9 doesn’t support this anymore.
May 10th, 2006 at 7:23 pm
I’ll get you. You know who you are.