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The Mountain View search engine appears to be testing a new version of its homepage, according to a Valleywag tipster. Health warning: we've had no second sighting yet. Anyway, if genuine, it's a significant revision of the Google front door. In a navigation strip across the top of the page, Google arrays its different search engines, for content such as video and news. And, for the first time, Google includes offerings other than search on the front page. Mountain View's highly popular web mail service is listed in the strip, and other services such as the online calendar are easily available in a dropdown. The screenshot, below.
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i didn't even notice that they changed it... wow google is that good
"Mountain View's highly popular web mail service"?
Mountain View is a town, not a company.
This is like referring to Redmond's new operating system, Windows Vista.
This sort of phrasing is fine for diplomatic seats (i.e. Beijing responded to Washington's latest overtures), but less appropriate for companies.
I'm sorry. I've looked back and forth at this screenshot and the current google home page, and the only difference I see is that they moved the menu — the same EXACT menu — from above the text input to the top of the page...a little less user-friendly, to me. Am I missing something?
No Froogle?
I am very surprised that so far nobody noticed that the new google home page takes a VERY long time to load, as if they were running or installing something on my PC while loading.
I use google as my home page because it used to be the fastest loading home page (and of course I google a lot). Now, even my own website loads a lot faster than Google.
Any way to get back to the OLD Google page?
kbeck98
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