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Google.com tests a news-filled homepage, just like Bing and Yahoo (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Google became the go to for search because it was a clean page with a search box and only two buttons.

I'm feeling lucky: which would take you straight to the first search result.

and

Search: Which took you to the results page, which thanks to page rank, were actually useful.

This was in response to the confusing cluster fuck that was every other search engine home page that were filled with crap they wanted you to see and the results were stuffed full of sponsored links rather than search results.

Google has now finished becoming what it once replaced.

So glad I gave up on it for search years ago.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, this doesn't look good at all.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I remember Marissa somewhere espousing why Google's homepage was so "clean".

But I do recall fondly iGoogle homepage/doodles like mentioned elsewhere in here too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6x0cAzQ7PVs

Alas.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

iGoogle didn't have ads up front right? I think today's Google would use the addition of news to include front page ads similar to Bing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

You have become they very thing you swore to destroy.

(Tbf they've on the "live long enough to see yourself become the villain" side of things for a while now, but this was the thing that made them stand out, a big part of what first put them on the map.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

"It was said that you would destroy the Sith, not join them!"