The design of Google pages (both web search and custom search) seem to have issues with Internet Explorer 8. See examples:
Google Web Search in IE 8
Perform a search on Google using Internet Explorer 8 (try "blog" or "hello") and you’ll only see the top 3 or 5 results on the search results page. Now change the text zoom and other search results will magically appear. This video captures the bug.
Google Custom Search and IE 8
Google Custom Search too has issues with IE 8. Perform a search on some site that uses Google Custom Search (example – http://search.labnol.org/) and it will put IE in an infinite loop. The only option you have is to end the iexplore.exe process through the Windows Task Manager. Check the video.
Find this article at: http://www.labnol.org/internet/internet-explorer-8-breaks-google-search/5550/
Tags: bug, feature, google custom search, Internet
Reader Comments
Wake up development team. This is pure crap that microsoft team has developed.
–Chris
Written by About Online Tips on 11.25.08
Same type of bug with formatting of charts in Excel 2007. If the chart was created in xl2003 then opened in xl2007 the chart would be huge until you zoom out and back in and it would return to normal size.
You’d think they would learn!
Written by Jayson on 11.25.08
It is not only for Google. Page breaks happen at some web pages. Sometimes my personal blog seems like that: link
But sometimes pages seem correct. It is normal because IE8 is beta.
Written by CEBE on 11.25.08
@CEBE
IE8 is beta and free. xl2007 isn’t and it costs a lot of money.
There is a difference
Written by Jayson on 11.25.08
Maybe Google hasn’t update its sites yet? After all, IE8 pretty much does support standards now, right? Maybe Google hasn’t fixed its sites yet for the IE browser.
Written by Quikboy on 11.25.08
may be Google websites will be only supported by their chrome browser.
because microsoft can’t make a browser that can’t be used by people.
May be Google is now using it’s search power and optimizing it’s products only for chrome and asking people to download and install chrome if they already have forefox or ie.
some times gmail also not properly work in ie 6.
it’s an issue with Google websites not with ie or any other browser
Written by Ajay on 11.26.08
I’ve had this problem since upgrading to both beta 1 and beta 2 versions of IE8. I hope this giant pissing match of great proportions is not a continuing problem, but I fear that it probably is. Call me a conspiracy theorist, but they’re probably carving out their user bases: Google wants you to use Chrome in order to get their search results at blazing speeds and not be able to view certain sites correctly and Microsoft wants you to use their IE in order to surf sites as they are designed – but restrict your Google search results because that is the majority of what everybody uses and they’ll make a last attempt to pull users away.
Though I’m not a big fan of Firefox, it’s sad that I have to use it in order to get both search results and unabridged web browsing. I even experienced a page that doesn’t work in both Chrome and IE8 but works in nearly any other browser. This childish behavior is unacceptable from Microsoft; At least Google can use the fledgling status of Chrome’s development to their excuse.
Written by Jon on 11.29.08