Google discontinues Google/Linux

[spinynorman]

Having been puzzled by the results I've been getting with Google/Linux, I've done a bit of digging and found that Google has discontinued a number of specialised search facilities - but didn't bother to announce it.

 

If you use www.google.com/linux, you are redirected to www.google.com/webhp. To get Linux results, you have to include the word in the search terms.

 

Thanks to the unofficial GoogleSystem blog for the information.

[xboxboy]

At first I was thinking "What a pack of clowns, shutting that down."

 

But the I remember google is a business, which is working on Android plus other OS's, so why make it easier for your competitors?

 

I guess I'll have to use the forum more :)

[ianw1974]

I never used those options anyway, I simply did what they suggested naturally and probably most people did that as well, so I can understand why they dropped them.

[phunni]

At first I was thinking "What a pack of clowns, shutting that down."

 

But the I remember google is a business, which is working on Android plus other OS's, so why make it easier for your competitors?

 

I guess I'll have to use the forum more :)

 

Both android and ChromeOS (Google's OS offerings) are based on Linux. Are; essentially, in fact, Linux.

[AussieJohn]

G'Day Phunni.

 

Long time no hear. Good to see you back here again.

 

Cheers. John.

[ramfree17]

I never used those options anyway, I simply did what they suggested naturally and probably most people did that as well, so I can understand why they dropped them.

 

ditto. I used to use them but now typing linux (or my distro) first then my keywords deliver the same value that I need.

 

ciao!

[Reiver_Fluffi]

Thread title is ambiguous, borderline sensationalist.

 

I never used those options anyway, I simply did what they suggested naturally and probably most people did that as well, so I can understand why they dropped them.

 

Ditto that.