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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. The real question is... by ivan256 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If people designed their websites to serve their users instead of GoogleBot, would it matter that their pagerank was a little lower?

    1. Re:The real question is... by multipartmixed · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Would they HAVE any users if their PageRank was a little lower?

      Or - if a web page is put up on a server, and nobody is there to surf it -- does it make an impression?

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  2. looks like iGoogle by nikqu · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The last page looks like iGoogle to me.