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Yesterday Google released a more Bingish looking version of its homepage (what comes next, daily photos?) that has a new font, brighter colors, more earning potential for them, and probably more earning potential for you too.
After hitting the now more visible “More” link, there’s a new menu that you can’t possibly miss.
Lest you have any doubt, this is not purely about user experience, and it’s also a way to get more page views to Google’s pages, and sell more advertising.
That’s probably a good thing, and well placed PPC image and video ads will likely pay off big for advertisers and Google, but I’m really not sure I like it as a user yet.
While I don’t necessarily hate it, it does take some getting used to. And why an “Everything” tab? Why not a “Web Pages” tab?
Anyway, regardless, Google knows what’s good for us, and whether I like it or not, it’s here.
I do think they should add the Google Wonder Wheel to the main menu – I love that thing – but it’s now buried deeper in the bottom left than it was when I made this video…
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Yeh well said I did notice this, and it is looking cool. I just loved the news Google settings. I notice it a month or two ago when I was searching Google from IE8. Anyways it looks great!
I’m starting to like the new Google. I don’t care for Bing too much but I’m liking the new Google layout. Now, if only Google can get the junk websites out of their index it would be a much better search engine.