How to Remove the Google Everything Bar

[Blackthorn]

The always reliable site TweakGuides has an article detailing how to remove the new "Everything" bar that is now at the side of Google searches. For anyone who, like me, finds this bar intrusive and cluttering, you can read the guide here.

 

[Solaris]

ewww that thing is horrible, the bar i mean

 

[xombine]

I really don't understand the reasoning behind it, aren't all of those features accessible up at the top? All I can think of is that they're trying to push more users to use them.

 

[No Limit]

Yeah, the new bar sucks.

Be careful using the guide above. It will hide any div on any web site with the name leftnav. This is a fairly common name that developers use so it can seriously screw up a lot of web sites you navigate to.

 

[Lucid]

Doesn't bother me enough to get rid of it, really.

 

[ríomhaire]

Thanks I was about to post a thread on this in the lounge before I thought to check this section.

 

[arch5]

Thank you. I hate the everything bar.

 

[VirusType2]

http://www.google.com/m/),

 

[Adabiviak]

I didn't even notice it until today, then I read this post. Opera's fix works great.

 

[VirusType2]

It's different. Will take some getting used to. I don't know if it's better or worse yet, but it could be an extremely useful refinement:

"This new side panel highlights the most relevant search tools and refinements for your query," Marissa Mayer, Google's vice president of search products and user experience, explained on a blog post. For example, a search for "wind power" allows queries to be narrowed down to categories such as "News," "Blogs," "Images," "Books" — or, at the top, "Everything." "The 'Everything' option remains our essential search experience with different types of results integrated into the main results, but now you can also easily switch to just the particular type of results you are looking for," Mayer wrote. Google also added a "Something Different" feature that offers related topics (such as, with our "wind power" search, "solar power"). "These changes are slight, keeping our page minimalist and whimsical, but make our overall look more modern," Mayer noted.

Actually it was already like that wasn't it? They just added icons.

I don't like having to click arrows to expand (more...). Just show all the options, what is it going to overwhelm me? I mean, if it's hidden by default, I won't really use it. If it's there all the time (not hidden) I'll remember that I have the option, and I'll remember its placement in the list. I don't want to go hunting.

I think the placement of the results directly below the search bar makes more sense, but it feels awkward at first.

 

[Blackthorn]

Be careful using the guide above. It will hide any div on any web site with the name leftnav. This is a fairly common name that developers use so it can seriously screw up a lot of web sites you navigate to.

Guide has been updated for a solution that should only effect Google now.