Google Reverted to Old Layout

@royallaura13
Hi, since this morning I'm experiencing exactly the same problem. Unfortunnately my internet resurch was unsuccessful. I really hope someone is able to help us with this. If you find yourself any solution, please don't hesitate to post. Thanks, Dimitri

Hello, I'm having the same problem here 😟 i hope they fix this soon!

Have you contacted Google? I don't like Google (for reasons that are mine) and I use nothing except the map application.

Barry

I have the problem as well. It has happened before, after I went to a cached page from a Google search, but I was able to reset and clear Safari. This time, the old page is staying. I sent several messages to Google and one to Apple.

Does anyone know if we could update one version of Safari on this old OS, and perhaps that would clear the issue?

Same problem here. Very strange. I deleted cookies recently, but I don't think that has anything to do with it.

Interestingly, I suddenly stopped receiving gmail push notifications on my iPhone too.

Same problem on our iMac (running Snow Leopard 10.6.8 / Safari 5.1.10) - old version of Google search engine and also old version of Google images.

Strangely, both iPads we have are also running the old version of Google search (but Google images ok).....??!!!!!!

HELPPPPPPPPPPPPP !!!!!

I have the same problem (using Snow Leopard 10.6.8). It just started today, I'm hoping it's a google thing and not a safari thing. I tried looking for safari updates, and tried restarting my comp/safari and resetting safari and it doesn't seem to have worked. Hopefully this will be fixed by tomorrow -- I didn't realize how annoying the old version of Google was.

I am guessing this was done purposefully to get us to use Chrome.

Same issue here. I'm gonna try a few things. I'll share if I solve it.

Yeh, it's happening to all of us on 10.6.8 and Safari 5.1.10, and looks like all I hear is you have to update to a new browser, Well I believe that for those of us on Snow Leopard, we can't get a newer version of Safari, Am I correct?

Issue seems to be buzzing over the web now - also in the USA.

Found the below on Google's own product site.

It worked for me - the current version of Google is restored, but if you 'reset' safari it goes back to the old version again.

Looks like a google issue not an iMac/Apple issues - guess Google will either resolve or we will need to update Safari or possibly Snow Leopard OS to Lion or Mavericks ?? (which I don't want to do / not sure if I can do on my 2010 iMac)

Link is:

https://productforums.google.com/forum/m/#!search/google$20homepage$20had$20reve rted$20to$20old/websearch/hEVDmDw8ccU%5B1-25-true%5D

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MadFranko008 Level 3

The Devel fix only works for the session. You have to change the plist file to make it permanent but I am unsure how to do that because they don't open in Text editors anymore.

Can someone help?

I'm afraid this didn't work for me! Anyone else have any ideas?

Same thing happening to me. Google images reverted to old basic version in Safari. Images are working properly in Firefox and other browsers. In Firefox at the bottom of the page it has a link to "Switch to basic version" so I would think there would be a link at the bottom of the Safari page saying "switch to standard version" but there isn't. This happened without me changing any settings. Clearing cache, resetting Safari does nothing. Very frustrating!

the fact that we did nothing and changed nothing, and it worked fine for us on Safari 2 days ago, for years, is a disgrace on Google's part.

Why should I upgrade my OS just for Google? Safari is as high as it goes on SL 10.6.8, and It's done the job OK.

Google should hang their heads in shame if this is not going to be sorted out. What a joke. I bet they'd do it for Windows users