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Google's New Design

Posted by samzenpus on from the google's-new-clothes dept.

smitty777 writes "You may have already noticed some of the changes in Google as part of their multi-month design slam. These design changes include information architecture focus, seamless device integration, and simplifying a number of elements. According to the official Google blog, the changes over the next few months will affect Google Search, Maps and Gmail. The black navigation bar in place right now is also part of the Google +Project."

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  1. The cow goes.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    moo.

  2. How about Google Classic by Jeng · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How about a Google Classic page, just the little friendly box that we type our queries into, hit enter, and get our results. Nothing else.

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    1. Re:How about Google Classic by Grizzley9 · · Score: 4, Insightful

      How about a Google Classic page, just the little friendly box that we type our queries into, hit enter, and get our results. Nothing else.

      Sounds like you are wasting effort already by going to the google.com search page. Why not just type it in either the search engine bar or super bar in FF/IE or the address bar in Chrome? There's no reason to go to Google.com with modern browsers.

  3. Being Slashdot this will mean... by jellomizer · · Score: 1, Insightful

    They will hate it.
    Anything that changes they hate.
    If someone tries to lighten things up a bit they hate it.

    They want the product to stay the same every day and never improve them, until it gets so outdated that it not used at all... Except by them.

    For being tech people, I am surprised how resistant to change we are.

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    1. Re:Being Slashdot this will mean... by YojimboJango · · Score: 3, Insightful

      I'm torn by your comment. In one sense I quit using Gawker all together when they applied their new redesign (because it broke if obscene amounts of javascript wasn't enabled). So it's not like a bad design hasn't made me quit a site...

      However they changed a white bar to a black bar. WTF people. Based on a lot of reactions a sane man would assume that they murdered your cat in front of your children. Breathe.

    2. Re:Being Slashdot this will mean... by maxwells_deamon · · Score: 4, Insightful

      If you have a vision issue (or just a crappy monitor) it becomes about 10 times harder to read. What advantage does it provide beyond eye candy?

  4. Re:Too late. by Helpadingoatemybaby · · Score: 1, Insightful

    No, Bing got caught incorporating Google's results. And personally, I don't care how Bing's doing it. Their results are better. And yes, Microsoft is scum.

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  5. Yes now it takes two clicks to log out of Gmail... by overnight_failure · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...where it used to be one. And now you have to navigate a menu to do it.

    K.I.S.S.

  6. Re:Looks like time to find a new search engine by 0123456 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Searches for what I want it to search for instead of what it thinks I wanted to search for. Google is always wrong on this one and has been getter worse and worse since they implemented it.

    Yeah, pretty much every time I use Google now I start wondering whether there's a better search engine out there because every update makes it less useful. Why should I have to tell the search engine to actually search for what I specifically asked it to search for and not try to guess what I really wanted to search for?

    It's particularly problematic for technical searches which often have acronyms which are close to real words and Google 'corrects' them for me.

  7. Google was great because of the lack of Google+ by eepok · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I don't like the direction. People flocked to Google because it was minimalist and worked. They expanded their market, but kept their face mostly the same-- minimalist. Now they're going Google+ and open the way for someone to be "Just like Google was before they bloated their landing page".

    1. Re:Google was great because of the lack of Google+ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      This. Google's key advantage over others is in it's concise, simplistic presentation combined with an answer to whatever you're searching for within a couple of clicks. When they start adding more bloat and clutter to be more "Web 2.0" is when they will fail.

      Sadly it looks like this is occurring much sooner than I'd hoped. :'(