All browsers have a weird version of Google

[pissfaust]

Hello. Some time ago my Google search randomly changed and is a lot different from the original one, I don't have that problem with my other PCs.

Here are two screenshots of how it looks

https://gyazo.com/68d338798e372f35433671d767120ab7
https://gyazo.com/847e26608b6904b6a6a89248515b3618

Any idea what may cause this and how to fix it?

[emoticorpse]

Delete cookies?. Sometimes when I use a vpn google changes the search language or whatever amd even when I jump off vpn it still treats me as if I were in that other location until I clear cookiea so it reverts to current location language.

[pissfaust]

Originally posted by emoticorpse:

Delete cookies?. Sometimes when I use a vpn google changes the search language or whatever amd even when I jump off vpn it still treats me as if I were in that other location until I clear cookiea so it reverts to current location language.

Deleting cookies only fixes it for like 10 minutes.

[emoticorpse]

Well, all right. How about this.

How many extensions do you have? which ones are they?. Have you scan for viruses with malwarebytes?. What is on your startup?. What's your running services that ARE NOT default Windows ones?.

All these questions matter. If you don't have the answer to any of these possibly the answer relies in the answer to it.

[pissfaust]

Originally posted by emoticorpse:

Well, all right. How about this.

How many extensions do you have? which ones are they?. Have you scan for viruses with malwarebytes?. What is on your startup?. What's your running services that ARE NOT default Windows ones?.

All these questions matter. If you don't have the answer to any of these possibly the answer relies in the answer to it.

Only got the basic Chrome extensions and adblock, malwarebytes says everything's clean, startup also only has basic stuff like Spotify, Google Drive, flux etc. I'll check running services. Thanks a lot for replying.

[chiefputsilao✖️ping]

nothing wrong with your google.

the first is article web search, the second is based on picture web search.

[pissfaust]

Originally posted by chiefputsi✖✖✖ 上 没什么 老挝:

nothing wrong with your google.

the first is article web search, the second is based on picture web search.

That's not how it was before. Image search barely works now and when clicking an image it opens a site instead of enlarging the image. The article search is now much slower aswell for some reason. Sometimes it reverts back to the original version, but once I refresh the page it's gone.

[emoticorpse]

Originally posted by The Politician:

Originally posted by chiefputsi✖✖✖ 上 没什么 老挝:

nothing wrong with your google.

the first is article web search, the second is based on picture web search.

That's not how it was before. Image search barely works now and when clicking an image it opens a site instead of enlarging the image. The article search is now much slower aswell for some reason. Sometimes it reverts back to the original version, but once I refresh the page it's gone.

I read that Google recently removed the ability to enlarge images from image search or removed the ability to go directly to the image. Something to that effect. Has to do with not screwing content owners out of visitors or something?.

[chiefputsilao✖️ping]

then from my point of view, the screenshots are meaningless since they only show article and image searches.

if you think something is wrong, do scans of your PC:
1. updated antivirus scan
2. malwarebytes scan (free or trial)
3. hijack this
4. spybot search and destroy.
5. S.M.A.R.T. status of your hdd storage.

[pissfaust]

Well after a couple of malware scans and a lot of poking around I somehow managed to fix it. Malwarebytes found a threat after the second scan, that might've been it. Thank you for your help guys.