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What if Google Had to Design For Google?

Posted by Zonk on from the horse-of-a-different-color dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Web developers increasingly grow weary of having to put so much effort into designing their sites according to the whims of the Google search engine. When the most important thing is 'getting indexed' it is increasingly difficult for web site designers to offer the simple, uncluttered user experience they'd like to. Reminiscent of the famed what if Microsoft designed the iPod box here is a humorous look at what would happen to that famed, clean, uncluttered look if Google had to design for the Google Search Engine."

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  1. Must really be bad.... by magarity · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...my company's webfilter says I can't be shown it because the site has fallen in the "tasteless and/or gross" category.

    1. Re:Must really be bad.... by n+dot+l · · Score: 2, Funny

      ...my company's webfilter says I can't be shown it because the site has fallen in the "tasteless and/or gross" category. You don't happen to work for Google, do you? :)
  2. Re:Brilliant, but... by FinchWorld · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think this is closer to the truth.

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  3. Does it remind you of another search engine? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now it looks like Yahoo. Perhaps Yahoo is trying really hard to remain relevant.

  4. Re:NSFW Links in article. by WrongMonkey · · Score: 2, Funny

    HAHA, did you actually click on the "Hillary Dildo Bushwacker" link?

  5. Re:the final product link by MontyApollo · · Score: 4, Funny

    It actually reminded me somewhat of Yahoo's page, but without all the advertising.

  6. Re:This guy clearly doesn't know HTML by grahamd0 · · Score: 2, Funny

    And that keeps the rest of us working! Do you think I'd make any money building web sites if I went around speaking clearly and telling everyone how easy it is??

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  7. Re:If nothing else... by GeoSanDiego · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wouldn't a surefire way to find the best Search Engine Optimizer be to google "Search Engine Optimization" and pick the first rank ?

  8. Re:This guy clearly doesn't know HTML by cayenne8 · · Score: 2, Funny
    "...keeps people at the "copy code, bash it until it works or ask for help" stage."

    Wait...are you insinuating that there is some other method of coding things?????

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