Google, just like Bing, keeps making their core search product better. Google today is releasing the minimalist homepage that you probably know, to the masses.
It removes many of the main page elements, bringing them to you once you wave your mouse over the page.
If you have been under a rock, the changes look just like this. New on the left, old on the right.
Some users complained at the switch, asking how they were supposed to click “search,” if there was no button. Google left them a not for a while explaining to just hit enter.
After testing a total of 10 variants to the “fade in” homepage, Google felt it ready to launch. It really does clean up the homepage, and make the entry to search feel cleaner. But, I have to ask, with Bing launching new capabilities, it feels a touch,well, weak, to have this be the responding Google annoucement.
The design does underscore Google’s complete dedication to search however. Google has on the occasion used the homepage to promote a few Google related products, most notably Chrome and the Droid. For now, it seems to want to draw all focus to search.
What do you think of the new home page?
Wait, about 2 seconds ago those images were switched…were they fixed suddenly or is my browser insane?
Looks right to me.
BIG DEAL! LAME.
Really? It’s going to impact hundreds of millions of people for a long time, I think that makes it news worthy.
Besides, it’s gorgeous.
I might me confusing this for someplace else, but wasn’t there an article about this already?
This isn’t even that new anymore; I remember noticing this change about a month and a half ago.
Someplace else. Also, you were a beta tester obvi.
I would like to see the Google Personal Home page cleaned up a bit… or spruced up perhaps, I’m not particularly entirely happy how my information is displayed…
Although I appreciate Google’s mission to ’speed up the web’, I believe this DNS service is nothing more than another way for Google to gain more insight is people’s browsing behaviour. Be aware that when you start using this service, Google knows exactly which sites are being visited from your PC. Even when you’re not using Google for search.
Sounds kind of interesting for behavioral targeting of ads, doesn’t it? :)
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Although I appreciate Google’s mission to ’speed up the web’, I believe this DNS service is nothing more than another way for Google to gain more insight is people’s browsing behaviour. Be aware that when you start using this service, Google knows exactly which sites are being visited from your PC. Even when you’re not using Google for search.
Sounds kind of interesting for behavioral targeting of ads, doesn’t it? :)
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Alternative headline: “Google’s mission to dominate and subsume the Internet continues”
Why so positive about this? This is another tool to help just one firm gain control of the Internet. Eventually, ISPs, attracted by the fact that they don’t need to maintain infrastructure will migrate to this, as many have done with Google Apps.
And eventually that will be game over.
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Alternative headline: “Google’s mission to dominate and subsume the Internet continues”
Why so positive about this? This is another tool to help just one firm gain control of the Internet. Eventually, ISPs, attracted by the fact that they don’t need to maintain infrastructure will migrate to this, as many have done with Google Apps.
And eventually that will be game over.
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Who would you rather trust? Your ISP or Google?
Me, I pick Google any day of the week
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Who would you rather trust? Your ISP or Google?
Me, I pick Google any day of the week
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Good. The games already lasted too long.
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Good. The games already lasted too long.
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Me, I pick my ISP!
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Me, I pick my ISP!
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I would pick my ISP. Or even better, services like OpenDNS.
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It sure is another way to get more userdata fot the big G, but damn, it is a lot faster then my previous dns server!
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look for “vivilproject dns” on a search engine and list a lot of public DNS other than google dns and opendns… i do not love my private surf can be tracked for ads reasons :-(
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Google is interesting.
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