Google Updates Its Face 548
whereiseljefe writes "About 12:00 am Central Time, at least when I saw it, Google changed it's face. Before it was a simplistic search engine, with a minimal front page, and now has become even more so. Those pretty tabs we have become accustomed to are now gone, and in the search results, the "summary" section at the top is now a faded blue bar (see here with a search returning ads). And the ads are a little more low key. Nice to know they are cutting back on their interface rather than adding spastically like Yahoo." Other folks noted that they've added Froogle and Local Directory pages have now been given links on the front page. Which is good, since inclusion in the main page tends to mean ready for prime time.
Good! (Score:5, Funny)
Puhhh (Score:3, Funny)
New google fizzles (Score:4, Funny)
Look, this is 2004, and "understated" is synonymous with "loser". If you want to put the mazuma in da bank, baby, you gotta POP, SIZZLE!
And I know what I'm talking about - I'm a marketing exec in a Fortune 500.
Re:About Face! (Score:5, Funny)
"...rather than adding spastically like Yahoo" (Score:2, Funny)
Mirror (Score:5, Funny)
Re:In firefox... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Meanwhile... (Score:4, Funny)
Google H4x0r (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Meanwhile... (Score:5, Funny)
Dead you say ? (Score:2, Funny)
http://www.google.com/bsd
The requested URL
oh well, I can wait.
Details of pagerank system also revealed (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Mirror (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Meanwhile... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Slashdotted... (Score:4, Funny)
Important: Note that google is not affiliated with the authors of google.com or responsible for its content.
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They've improved the search as well!!!!! (Score:4, Funny)
miserable failure
Now hit the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button.
Gotta love google.
Re:About Face! (Score:5, Funny)
slashdotted! (Score:1, Funny)
Good step forward (Score:5, Funny)
But Google not only presents these "submission" buttons, but a range of categories to manifest my self doubt. Images: Is there something wrong with my own self image? Groups: Am I accepted as a member of a group. News: Does anything interesting or newsworthey ever happen in my life? Froogle: Am I managing my finances appropriately, or will I squander my fate through illiteracy or bad spelling? More>>: Is there something missing in my hollow pointless life...do I need something more to fill the void?
And as a last kick in the teeth, Google must remind me at the bottom that the page is copyrighted, and that it is "Searching 4,285,199,774 web pages", as if to say "you are not good enough to receive this page".
So, please stop the user interface terrorism Google!
Re:Slashdotted... (Score:4, Funny)
These are both 300 MHz Dual Pentium II Servers with 512MB of RAM. There are 9 9G drives between the two machines. The main search used to run on them. These were donated by Intel.
Re:About Face! (Score:5, Funny)
Good bye google =(
Re:Mirror (Score:3, Funny)
Re:high key ads (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Good! (Score:5, Funny)
It's always a good time to reformat Windows.
Re:high key ads (Score:2, Funny)
fear not...secret Google version coming soon! (Score:1, Funny)
Google
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Re:Puhhh (Score:5, Funny)
You know you've been at the pr0n too much when your think what I was just thinkings.
The worst was when my fiance went to the spa, came back, ans said "I had a great facial. My face smells great!".
Did a double-take on that one...
Re:About Face! (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe Google is using 33-bit integers? Ever think of that, huh?
Same with Litigious Bastards (Score:3, Funny)
Not really cutting back, but... (Score:2, Funny)
I think they off-shored it... Cheaper, but less innovative.
Re:Don't be concerned until... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Meanwhile... (Score:4, Funny)
Google v. Yahoo (Score:5, Funny)
Some /.'ers old comments (Score:2, Funny)
Google is nothing special...it's just another student-made search engine. the content in the database is about a year old. For the hardware it has and the number of users that go there, it's pretty slow too. oh, i forgot, it knows about linux, so it's good. my bad. (who cares if it was hardcoded in there...)
It was also prone to the Slashdot effect then, it seems! How times change...and how wrong can some /.'ers be? ;)
Re:Mirror (Score:2, Funny)
So Google's not affiliated with... itself?
My brain hurts.
Re:New google fizzles (Score:1, Funny)
That's new enough for slashdot, though.
- a.c.
Slashdotting the zeitgeist? (Score:4, Funny)
But not me.
Re:About Face! (Score:2, Funny)
Sadly, they're signed.
- an AC old enough to have used 36-bit integers and 9-bit bytes
Re:New google fizzles (Score:3, Funny)
Say the whole thing to yourself in Disco Stu voice.
Hillarious. Because it fits so well.
Re:Good! - I had a similar experience... (Score:2, Funny)
Thanks