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When they moved the "Advanced Search" button below the fold on the Advanced Search page, I sighed and scrolled down. When they made the links at the top invisi
by edw519 16y ago
When they moved the "Advanced Search" button below the fold on the Advanced Search page, I sighed and scrolled down.
When they made the links at the top invisible until your mouse moved, I sighed and moved my mouse.
But now that Google looks like Bing, I just sigh.
- brianobush 16y agoI tried the background image, but never see it since I use firefox search bar. I would guess that most advanced google users use an interface akin to the search bar wherein you don't see the google front page.
- MikeCapone 16y agoI thought this was going to be a reference to the Martin Niemöller quote, but the ending doesn't fit with the spirit of that citation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came... In any case, well put.
- MikeCapone 16y agoNot sure why I'm getting downvoted, but in any case, I didn't mean any disrespect to what the quote is about or to the parent poster. His comment just reminded me of this (from a purely stylistic point of view -- the subject matters are in completely separate universes when it comes to gravity), that's all.
- whimsy 16y agoI didn't downvote you, but I suspect that you were downvoted because regardless of whether or not you intended to be disrespectful to the quote, people feel that it's disrespectful anyway. I would be hard-pressed to disagree with them - making any allusions to the WWII holocaust when we're talking about stylistic preferences for a search page is in pretty bad taste from where I'm sitting.
- MikeCapone 16y agoYou're right. Sorry if I offended. The parent comment only triggered the style of the quote in my memory, and in that context I didn't really think about the content. But looking back, it's probably in bad taste, especially among strangers. If we knew each other, I'm sure it would be clear I meant no disrespect. Point taken.
- whimsy 16y agoMisunderstandings are easy on the internet. No hard feelings.
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- periferral 16y agofrankly, its worse than bing. the page readability is miserable. Still moving the mouse to see the page load is my biggest gripe yet. That combined with the fact that it loses the search keyboards sometimes when I hit the back button (on firefox).
- to_jon 16y agoAgreed, it's hardly readable and a terrible implementation. Hard to believe that Google could be so inept at a simple UI enhancement.
- pbz 16y agoI miss the automatic dictionary entries for the words you searched; couldn't find a way to turn that back on...