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Google Introduces, Then Scraps, Bing-Style Background Images
NIN1385 writes "Google has scrapped the now infamous background image option on its homepage. After 14 hours of a scheduled 24-hour experiment to see how people liked (or disliked) the new homepage layout, the company must have found out it was very disliked. I guess the fact that 'remove Google background' was the seventh most searched for phrase today might have had something to do with it."
There were also a couple of snarky tweets from Microsoft regarding the "bing-style" backgrounds.
If you can't mod them join them.
I only use the Pac-Man page.
I thought this was just a one-day thing they were doing to show they're aware of the oilpocalypse. Bing has pretty pictures but I don't actually use it for anything. As Stephen Colbert said "Bing is the best search engine. I know because I googled it."
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What text fading? I don't see any text fading. You must have done something wrong. Especially if you wouldn't even know how to modify that feature. [/typical enthusiast forum response]
Information theory is life. The rest is just the KL divergence.
Google has said in the past that they use an empirical, incremental approach to UI design where user actions are studied and these guide decisions
I have google set as my home page, and the first thing I did when I got to work was search for what is this shite, Bing?! So, google reverting to a lightweight UI -- that was my idea!
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
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5 of 50 achievements! Yeesh!
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1) Emulate absurd feature of competitor ...
2) Wait for public upheaval
3) Concede to users' outrage
4) Make it into a news story
5)
6) Profit!
What many people may have gotten from this:
"Wow, Bing still does that? Google was good enough to axe it. Google cares about users. Bing is Tacky"
> I recall reading that they would like to remove the "I'm feeling lucky"
> button (because no one uses it), but they can't. Users simply can't
> handle large changes.
Well that's an easy one to handle. Just remove it gradually. Every week, take off 1 letter.
I'm Feeling Lucky
I'm Feeling Luck
I'm Feeling Luc
I'm Feeling Lu
I'm Feeling L
etc.
In just a few short months the button will be worn down to a nub and can then be safely removed without causing stress for users.
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Do I even want to know what the background in question looked like? I bet I don't. In fact, here's me explicitly *not* even asking. Whatever it was, I'm glad I missed it.
It was some hot ass chick bent over a bike getting it from the biker. It's a good thing you missed it, it was pretty sinful.