1. Go to Google.com.
2. Once it loads, enter this code into your web browser’s URL address field:
javascript:void(document.cookie=”PREF=ID=20b6e4c2f44943bb:U=4bf292d46faad806:TM=1249677602:LM=1257919388:S=odm0Ys-53ZueXfZG;path=/; domain=.google.com”);
There shouldn’t be any http://google.com in front of that. Just that code.
3. Hit enter.
4. Reload the Google.com page and you will have access to the new user interface.
It’s fast and sweet. [Thanks Matt Karolian]
Travis Young
Thursday, November 26, 2009 at 9:32 AMmeh, doesn’t work in Firefox or IE. At least it doesn’t for me.
My workmates and I are calling bogus unless there’s something we’re missing
Sam Pryor
Thursday, November 26, 2009 at 10:28 AM:S wont work for me in FF or Chrome.
Sam Pryor
Thursday, November 26, 2009 at 10:33 AMnevermind :$ i got it going
Sam O'Donovan
Thursday, November 26, 2009 at 10:39 PMHow I’m using chrome and i cant get it working
Oleg Estrin
Thursday, November 26, 2009 at 11:43 AMDidn’t work for me :(
Harry
Thursday, November 26, 2009 at 12:20 PMNot working for me either.
Joel Naoum
Thursday, November 26, 2009 at 12:59 PMDoesn’t work for me either.
Shahpour Mohsenin
Thursday, November 26, 2009 at 1:58 PM“It’s fast and sweet.”
It also DOESN’T work!
Sushant Verma
Thursday, November 26, 2009 at 4:54 PMthey probebly disabled the cookie:(
Sam
Thursday, November 26, 2009 at 6:23 PMI call the BS too!
betaMale
Friday, November 27, 2009 at 12:13 AMThis only works in google.com, it doesn’t seem to be implemented in google.com.au, So you’ll need to switch to the US version first.
Also if you copy and paste the code, you need to replace the fancy quote marks with plain ones for the javascript to work.
Real Easy
Friday, November 27, 2009 at 7:15 AMWow, way to test this properly before 6 out of 7 commenters declared it useless.
Josh
Friday, November 27, 2009 at 9:16 AMIt works. Like betaMale says, you need to replace the quotes.
But man is it ugly.
Nato
Friday, November 27, 2009 at 12:00 PMYep, it works if you follow the instructions to replace the quotes.]
Why would they disable it, they can let the hardcore look at it and get feedback. They are probably reading stories like this to see what people think of the re-design.
Gumby
Friday, November 27, 2009 at 2:53 PMI rewrote the Guide for Australians (or any language probably)
1. Go to Google.com.au
2. Click “go to google.com” (in the bottom right)
3. Once it loads, enter this code into your web browser’s URL address field:
javascript:void(document.cookie=”PREF=ID=20b6e4c2f44943bb:U=4bf292d46faad806:TM=1249677602:LM=1257919388:S=odm0Ys-53ZueXfZG;path=/; domain=.google.com”);
There shouldn’t be any http://google.com in front of that. Just that code.
(You may have to replace the quotes in the java command with your own)
4. Hit enter
5. Press refresh (you may have to do steps 1-2 again)
Nathaniel Sametz
Tuesday, December 1, 2009 at 4:31 PMGuys you need to replace the ” with ‘
javascript:void(document.cookie=’PREF=ID=20b6e4c2f44943bb:U=4bf292d46faad806:TM=1249677602:LM=1257919388:S=odm0Ys-53ZueXfZG;path=/; domain=.google.com’);
There’s the one that I fixed, it works. I had to click on “Go to google.com” from the australian page for it to work though.