Sergey used to demand that the payload of the home page be tiny (I think it had to be < 100K, if I recall -- or maybe even smaller). That was part of the appea

Sergey used to demand that the payload of the home page be tiny (I think it had to be < 100K, if I recall -- or maybe even smaller). That was part of the appeal of the simple search page, nothing but a logo and a search field. Now it looks minimal-ish, but contains a bunch of crap that serves only Google, not the end-user.