I know this may be old, but here it goes.
Google has been working on a new interface or layout for quite some time now. Quite a few users have reported seeing the layout but could not replicate it on other computers.
I have known about this interface for long time, but forgot about it. Recently this new interface just came up when I did a search on Google. I actually liked it, not for the design, but the speed of the page loading. Then what happened was I accidentally deleted my cookies using CCleaner, and it was gone.
I have now got it back, and this is how I did it:
- First, navigate to the Google homepage of your choice, e.g. google.com, google.co.uk.
- Then, copy this entire code (below) to the address bar, change the domain at the end to what ever you are using and press enter/go.
- Finally, SEARCH!
Here is the code (make sure you remove the line breaks):
javascript:alert(document.cookie="PREF=ID=fb7740f107311e46:
TM=1142683332:LM=1142683332:S=fNSw6ljXTzvL3dWu;
path=/;domain=.google.com")
The code no longer works.
[...] So I decided to delete Google’s cookies to revert to the old interface. Then I discovered that some people have been using the new interface since at least January, and there are plenty of sites with instructions of how to manually add the cookie and try the new interface. I carried out this procedure to see if I could get the new interface back. [...]