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Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 4:46 pm Post subject: New Google homepage

Google made a change today, and I dislike it very much.

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Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 4:55 pm Post subject:

Bigger is better. _________________ I need more room for my signature. 255 characters is not enough. Complaint filed.

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Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 4:57 pm Post subject:

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Bigger is better.

No, it's disturbingly big. If I wanted it bigger, I would hit the magnify option on IE.

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Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 5:11 pm Post subject:

It's almost the same size as Bing's search box now. Not that anyone uses Bing. _________________ I need more room for my signature. 255 characters is not enough. Complaint filed.

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Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 6:13 pm Post subject:

marker101 wrote:

It's almost the same size as Bing's search box now. Not that anyone uses Bing.

You go to Bing

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Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 6:37 pm Post subject:

They probably did a study on this to come to the conclusion that this was necessary. Then, I bet they had to get a bunch of approvals passed by their engineering department so that they could put the purchase order out for the resources required to implement this system configuration change.

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I bet that bigger box means that they are going to need more google advertisements to recuperate the development and implementation costs! Laughing

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Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 7:09 pm Post subject:

Well, their stock was up today, so obviously not enough people noticed. _________________ I need more room for my signature. 255 characters is not enough. Complaint filed.

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Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 7:55 pm Post subject:

I just went to google. I dont like it.

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Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 8:29 pm Post subject:

Who goes to Google's index page, anyway? Are there still people who don't have Google built into their browsers? _________________ I apologize for nothing.

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Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 10:22 pm Post subject:

I don't like the new size either. It doesn't do me any good because I can't do a search on "I have too much free time so I complain about the size of text boxes" without that annoying scrolling. _________________ Classic Vinyl/Classic Rewind: Why have one great channel when you can have two crappy ones instead?

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Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 10:40 pm Post subject:

ykw wrote:

Who goes to Google's index page, anyway? Are there still people who don't have Google built into their browsers?

Who doesn't?

google.com is probably the most used homepage in the world.
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Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 5:19 am Post subject:

Ryan wrote:

ykw wrote:

Who goes to Google's index page, anyway? Are there still people who don't have Google built into their browsers?

Who doesn't?

google.com is probably the most used homepage in the world.

I use...

http://www.google.com/firefox?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official

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Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 8:51 am Post subject:

Looks the same here. http://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8 _________________ XMFAN. Home of the Longest Running Charlton Heston Blog Anywhere Everyone has the right to their own opinion... but not to their own reality.

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Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 10:37 am Post subject:

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Looks the same here.

http://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8

It shouldn't. It may not have propagated through all of the servers yet.
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Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 12:41 pm Post subject:

I still dislike the new homepage. I am never going to use it again. Ever. Even if there's a fire! _________________ The one and only, XMFan.com! Subscribe to http://twitter.com/xmfanstore for exclusive deals and coupons!

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