Comments on: Google at Its Minimalist Best?

By: Google Simplifies | Reaction Radio

Google Simplifies | Reaction Radio — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 06:11:53 +0000

[...] Google (GOOG) is always testing and tweaking its search interface. More recently, the search engine has tested a minimalist homepage design. [...]

By: Symbian

Symbian — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:44:35 +0000

They already got custom search feature, so everyone can make really minimalist start page with Google search. .-= Symbian´s last blog ..Where to find Ovi store app and games reviews =-.

By: Anand Srinivasan

Anand Srinivasan — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:42:59 +0000

What exactly are they trying to achieve? Everyone comes to Google for search, and even if they are going to accidentally click on one of those links at the bottom, they are still going to go back and search…

Besides, I am sure most users are going to think it is a problem with their internet connection that Google didn’t ‘load properly’..
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By: Saptarshi

Saptarshi — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 11:47:04 +0000

While we all love the minimalist approach of Google, I think at this stage they are probably overdoing it. Google is THE most popular search engine, as a result besides the pro users even the newbies use the engine alike. I think this new look is bound to puzzle a bunch of those first timers because they wont know what is the next step after filling in the search query. I think this is a compromise with usability.

Google have had a somewhat similar experience before in one of the south east Asian countries ( I don’t remeber the name, probably Korea) where people were initially not using the engine because by its minimalist look compared to Yahoo ( that had the leading market share at that stage) they thought that the website is incomplete.
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