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Google Homepage Gets New Look

Author Kausar    Category Google     Tags , , , ,

Just performing a routine Google search tonight and something seemed off as I looked through the results. The whole page seemed… brighter. It was different in other ways as well. A while ago (September 09) I read that Google was changing their site to make things a little bit bigger. I never really paid much attention to that and now a bigger, more noticeable change comes without any announcement? They even have their own time-line but it doesn’t contain this tidbit. Well, I’ll be your announcement then.
Home page

Here’s the old Google home page:

Here’s the new Google home page:

google new look

The changes: The logo is brighter, the letters have lost their shadows, the buttons are bigger, the text box is bigger, and there are fewer distracting links.
Results

Here’s the old Google Search results page:

google old look

Here’s the new Google Search results page:

google new search results page

The changes: Same logo changes, the options are now iconified on the left hand side, and the search is location-aware. You now have finer control on filtering results to show Everything, News, Images, Videos, Maps, Shopping, Books, Blogs, Updates (FriendFeed, Twitter, Buzz), or Discussions.

Here’s a closer look of the sidebar expanded:

google new look search engine sidebar

The particularly interesting thing is that I’m not quite sure how Google is rolling out this change. For me, the new look only shows up in Firefox. Google Chrome still looks like the previous style while IE and Opera look particularly dated with their full grey buttons.

I like the new look and the changes, but I’m surprised Google (as far as I know) has been quiet about it. I wonder where else we’ll see this change take effect. Is anybody else seeing the change implemented? Let me know in the comments.

9 Comments to “Google Homepage Gets New Look”

  • abcdot May 5, 2010 at 3:57 am

    I see this too and I absolutely hate it. Made me realize why I could never get into Bing.

  • Kausar May 5, 2010 at 4:41 am

    I personally do feel that its a lot of improvement from Google side in terms of design and effects.
    Guess Google tried 10 different effects and finally settled with the current fade in.
    we have super text box now for search typing. However, I also feel some thing being re modeled may be Bing itself and yahoo too.

  • Michael Podgoetsky May 5, 2010 at 9:12 am

    I am under impression that Google is in the race to present a FASTER search engine than Yahoo and Bing combined. I think a while back when there were rumors that Yahoo and Bing are combining their forces into one, the Bing came up with very FAST search engine and Google might catching up right now and thus you see some changes to the Face of Google.
    But I do like the new look as it is clearer in my opinion.

  • Kishore Mylavarapu May 5, 2010 at 11:08 am

    Great features..

  • Kausar May 5, 2010 at 11:11 am

    Yes I too am of the same View and as Michael evaluated the reasons that may be behind this unveiling , I too feel that in coming months we are going to have all new Google Tools at our hands.

  • Adam Taft May 5, 2010 at 10:03 pm

    Thanks! I’m glad it’s not just me. I was worried something was wrong with my browser. Checking IE and Chrome made me more concerned.

    For a brief moment, after deleting cookies, I saw the old logo and button treatment. But then, it was back soon after. I think they’re using the default buttons from their GWT toolkit or something. It looks dumb, if you ask me.

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