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In general, the home page of an organization tells you everything you need to know about its internal structure. Companies that don't know what they're doing ha
by neilk 17y ago
In general, the home page of an organization tells you everything you need to know about its internal structure. Companies that don't know what they're doing have confusing home pages. A focused company has a very clean home page. This is one step beyond even that.
Say what you will about Google, but name any other big web property that innovates on core services like this. Facebook maybe. Who else?
- ryanwaggoner 17y agoAmazon. I know many will complain about how they're cluttered, but Amazon is very test-centric and is constantly evolving their site based on statistical testing to improve the business metrics that matter to them.
- neilk 17y agoLots of stuff on the page != cluttered != confusing
- Hoff 17y agoI'm skeptical. It's a distracting feature. And I have to wait for it to fade back in to find the link to switch modes. It's distracting. Worse, this scheme stinks of that "too cool for its own good" flavor, which means it's going to be implemented badly all over the web by next week. Did I mention it's distracting?
- mbrubeck 17y agoThis radical innovation also seems somewhat... familiar: http://web.archive.org/web/19990422191353/http://google.com/ http://web.archive.org/web/19990422191353/http://google.com/