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Google Updates Its Face
whereiseljefe writes "About 12:00 am Central Time, at least when I saw it, Google changed it's face. Before it was a simplistic search engine, with a minimal front page, and now has become even more so. Those pretty tabs we have become accustomed to are now gone, and in the search results, the "summary" section at the top is now a faded blue bar (see here with a search returning ads). And the ads are a little more low key. Nice to know they are cutting back on their interface rather than adding spastically like Yahoo." Other folks noted that they've added Froogle and Local Directory pages have now been given links on the front page. Which is good, since inclusion in the main page tends to mean ready for prime time.
It's good to see that it's not just me. I thought it was time to reformat Windows again.
I'm not normally an irrational zealous dickhead, but I figure "When in Rome..."
Thank God - not another facial gone wrong.
The new google lacks kaw-pow, pizazz! It doesn't reach out and grab you and scream in your face - read this X-TREME web page!
Look, this is 2004, and "understated" is synonymous with "loser". If you want to put the mazuma in da bank, baby, you gotta POP, SIZZLE!
And I know what I'm talking about - I'm a marketing exec in a Fortune 500.
If their so smart, how come they forgot to use the all so critical flash intro page? Jason Argue about stuff
Bad submitter! Don't you know how Slashdot works during an election season? You have to find some way to blame these spastic additions on George Bush!
ABSURDITY, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
In case of Slashdotting, here is the Google cache.
Unfortunately, I am not Wil Wheaton
You ned to upgrade to monkeyfox for the bug fix.
The Google interface is available in many languages, including H4x0r!
Learn to fly! www.beapilot.com
And it doesnt display right first time in Firefox, i have to keep pummelling F5.
TheHustler
http://www.elmarko.org/ - Useless bilge
http://www.asylum-games.co.uk/ - Co-Founder
here, however, I suspect this may have leaked out 3 days too early.
A pizza of radius z and thickness a has a volume of pi z z a
Me too! Why is this?! You'd think the same markup should layout the same way every time you try it. Is it a problem with Slashdot's markup, or with Gecko? It's really unfortunate, since so much of my work^H^H^H^Hbrowsing time is spent at Slashdot...
main(O){10<putchar(4^--O?77-(15&5128 >>4*O):10)&&main(2+O);}
Important: Note that google is not affiliated with the authors of google.com or responsible for its content.
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Wanna play some word games?
Go to google's main page and type the following into the search box:
miserable failure
Now hit the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button.
Gotta love google.
And why didn't they use black scroll bars? I just love those things...
Not everything is analogous to cars. Car analogies rarely work.
This is a good step forward but still does not go far enough. We must erase this "user interface" tyranny. First of all - the title - i mean, gosh, it says "Google" in my browser title bar, in clear letters. Such gratuitous self-advertising is unnecessary and garish if you ask me. Please leave the title bar alone. Also, why is there so much busy text on the page. I'm a busy man, I can't be bothered to read all that. I count over 25 words on the front page alone! That adds up to countless more letters. And that is not even counting source code. I'm bewildered and confused. Also, they decieve the user by providing, two, TWO COUNT THEM, buttons to search. One says redundantly "Google Search" the other poses the existential statement "I'm Feeling Lucky". Now I appreciate free psychological therapy like the next person, but PLEASE Google, leave that up to the experts on daytime shows like Dr. Phil. Now I am left pondering whether I really feel lucky or not, or whether I only am doubting my luck because I am being presented with a challenge towards it, whether this is all my parent's fault, and ultimately feeling that I need not search the web, but rather within myself to find out who I truly am.
But Google not only presents these "submission" buttons, but a range of categories to manifest my self doubt. Images: Is there something wrong with my own self image? Groups: Am I accepted as a member of a group. News: Does anything interesting or newsworthey ever happen in my life? Froogle: Am I managing my finances appropriately, or will I squander my fate through illiteracy or bad spelling? More>>: Is there something missing in my hollow pointless life...do I need something more to fill the void?
And as a last kick in the teeth, Google must remind me at the bottom that the page is copyrighted, and that it is "Searching 4,285,199,774 web pages", as if to say "you are not good enough to receive this page".
So, please stop the user interface terrorism Google!
It's 10 PM. Do you know if you're un-American?
If you click the first link and snoop around a bit, you can find information and pictures of the server google was running on in '98. Ahem, and I quote
These are both 300 MHz Dual Pentium II Servers with 512MB of RAM. There are 9 9G drives between the two machines. The main search used to run on them. These were donated by Intel.
Google is going to reset soon, they are reaching the limit of an unsigned 32 bit integer, currently at: 4,285,199,774 of (4,294,967,296 - 1).
Good bye google =(
If you are feeling bored, do a Google search for things like "Make Money Fast" or something like that, and then repeatedly click on the ads to open in a new tab. Then when you get tired, close your browser. You'll never see the pages that load, but whoever paid to get listed on Google will be out another 25 cents or so... ;-)
I'm not a journalist, but I play one on slashdot
If you have uncontrollable urges to look way over at the right-hand side of your screen, you might have a serious medical problem.
Patrick Doyle
I mod down every jackass who puts his moderation policy in his sig. Oh, wait a sec....
Maybe Google is using 33-bit integers? Ever think of that, huh?
Same with "litigious bastards! Gotta love that Google!
Apparently you haven't heard yet, but "jump the shark" has jumped the shark.
mbbac
*modded by Admins -1, Subversive*
It's better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don't want and get it.
- E. Debs
Google can change the most minute detail of their page, and the world notices, because their page is so minimal. Yahoo, on the other hand, with their excessivly cluttered home page, could put the goatse guy on their page and half the visitors wouldn't even notice.
Mod down people who tell people how to mod in their sigs
Google is nothing special...it's just another student-made search engine. the content in the database is about a year old. For the hardware it has and the number of users that go there, it's pretty slow too. oh, i forgot, it knows about linux, so it's good. my bad. (who cares if it was hardcoded in there...)
It was also prone to the Slashdot effect then, it seems! How times change...and how wrong can some /.'ers be? ;)
But not me.
free speach
Did you mean: free speech
In fact they are.
Sadly, they're signed.
- an AC old enough to have used 36-bit integers and 9-bit bytes
When I went to Google today and the tab things weren't there, I freaked out. I mean, I didn't know wheatear to think the apocalypse had finally come or what! So after not finding anything about the home page alteration on Google, I crawled to a corner and curled up into the fetal position until I just had to have my /. fix and found this article telling me everything was going to be OK.
/. for saving my sanity!
Thanks