Google’s latest change to their search engine homepage was not welcome by all users. The increase of the font size was a shock to many who used to work with the same search engine page for the past years. Some users even got as far as claiming that they would move to another search engine if Google would not undo the changes. Soon userscripts and Firefox extensions were created that would bring the font size back to its old size.
Users who have been in shock then might want to stop reading at this point because it could get worse. Techcrunch was the first to write an article about Google’s new experimental homepage which only displays the Google logo and the search form on the page initially. No buttons, no other links.
Those links only become visible if a user moves the mouse in the window. Take a look at the video to see how the new Google search page could look like in the future:
Users with eagle eyes notice that there is no Search button at the end of the form and no I’m feeling lucky button either. It somehow does make sense from a usability standpoint. Many users simply type in the search query and hit enter on the keyboard to perform the search. Since they do not move the mouse at all for this operation they do not need the links on that page. Everyone moving the mouse might want to click on the links or use the mouse to perform the search.
It still could be very confusing for users and it is very likely that many will call tech support to ask if something is broken. You can also visit the custom search page if you want a barebones search interface.
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I notice this change in the morning on Google Chrome in Linux Fedora … I notice this just once, when i first time open Google web page
Who cares, I use scroogle.org for my anonymous google searches. I don’t care what the logo or font looks like, I just want accurate anonymous search results.
Google is becoming hysterical. Here we’ve moved our Web/Image/Video searches to Exalead, much better, takes the users’ preferences into consideration. I don’t know what’s going on over at Google’s headquarters but really looks like the company is getting mad, they’re movin’ around everywhere excited like a virgin!
When i tray to start up the link in your page http://www.google.com/custom/
i get the answer that the page is no longer present?
Ups, you need to use it without the last /. This is the correct url http://www.google.com/custom