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Google tweaks its home page
INTERNET SEARCH FIRM and advertising behemoth Google has given its plain homepage a make under.
According to the firm there will be a few changes on the homepage, which will add up to a slightly different experience than what its users are used to.
These first changes may only be slight, but according to a blog post from Google this is just the toe dipping stage, and another, so far not very detailed, project will see more changes hit the home page.
"Starting today, you might begin noticing that things look a little different across Google products. We're working on a project to bring you a new and improved Google experience, and over the next few months, you'll continue to see more updates to our look and feel. Even our classic homepage is getting a bit of a makeover," said Chris Wiggins, creative director for digital at Google.
"The way people use and experience the web is evolving, and our goal is to give you a more seamless and consistent online experience-one that works no matter which Google product you're using or what device you're using it on. The new Google experience that we've begun working toward is founded on three key design principles: focus, elasticity and effortlessness."
These principles should help finding information quicker and easier, of course, while other less obvious changes, like using bolder colours on actionable buttons, are designed to make searching easier - presumably by making it easier to see what buttons you are supposed to press. µ
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I am vision impaired. Due to the extremely low contrast of grey on black I Can't read the black navigation bar. Even my well sighted friends find it difficult. All I am asking for is the option to change it back... Please, Google, Have a Heart!
For those all tired of google "improvements" (not only the annoying search completion, but also the slow image thumbnails) there is a perfect fix:
When using firefox, install the HeaderControl addon and configure the site www.google.com UserAgent (with the Mangle HTTP UserAgent) to report Google a strange user agent. For example I use GOOD_OLD_GOOGLE_USER_INTERFACE. On this way, all internet sites continue properly working on Firefox and Google decides not to use most of modern annoying features (while still including another useful ones).
Since the google page changed it times out and closes IE 7. This hasn't happend before.
The other thing they need to fix is site preferences. The biggest example is that users cannot reliably turn off autocomplete. It's always been buggy and locks up Google on a slow connection. No matter how many times you click the link to tun it off, it just keeps on making wrong guesses and getting in the way.
I switched to Bing when it came out because at least it does what I tell it to do.
one would hope that the first change they make is to lose the superfluous 'home tab' that in my (and from the comments scattered throughout the web) appears to be a total waste of space...
of course, google have never listened before, so why should they now.