Google's New Design Gets Official
By Harry McCracken | Wednesday, May 5, 2010 at 8:34 am
The New York Times’ Brad Stone is reporting that Google is rolling out a new version of its search results with a left-hand sidebar today and tomorrow. It’s the final version of a design it’s been experimenting with for a long time, and bears a general conceptual resemblance to the sidebar at Bing, although the execution is quite different. I’m not getting it as my default yet, but wrote about a test version I stumbled across in March.
I’m happy–ever since Google introduced the sidebar almost a year ago–but left it closed until you clicked on a link to open it–I’ve been rooting for it to stay open all the time. Let us know if you’re seeing the new version of Google–and if so, what you think of it.
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May 5th, 2010 at 9:01 am
Ug!!! I hate this sidebar!!! How do I turn it off?????????
May 5th, 2010 at 9:05 am
I think this interface more flexible than others. I love it.
May 5th, 2010 at 9:12 am
I’m not seeing it yet (on either of my IPs–one with a logged in Chrome (Win), the other with a not-logged-in Safari (Mac–I see zero use for Safari on Windows).
It hardly matters–I seldom go to the Google home page anyhow (search with browser tools).
–John
May 5th, 2010 at 9:22 am
I got it last night and I was a bit confused at first – it may still take some getting used to for me since it is so different.
May 5th, 2010 at 4:42 pm
Oops. I do get the sidebar now (and quite possibly did earlier). But I am a fool: it’s in the results pages, not the entry page, as I should have known.
Easy to ignore if one doesn’t want it. The time-limited choices seem very useful (I really care about earthquakes today, usually, not those from 1953–although that one was fun).
May 5th, 2010 at 7:53 pm
Update: Delete all cookies from google.com and the horrid sidebar is gone!
May 6th, 2010 at 5:31 pm
This is very interesting. I have been seeing this interface for some time on and off. Now this new interface is final, I can fully use it. I like the shopping link on the left menu.
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July 22nd, 2011 at 3:29 pm
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July 24th, 2011 at 11:16 am
OK, I am a tad embarrassed to admit I re-downloaded the Google Toolbar… Now, why should that embarrass me?
September 11th, 2011 at 3:20 pm
Google continues its massive design review with another of their sites, Google Translate. The site now joins the new design mantra of Google, and is one of the first and few who have become full. Of course it is a simple site with few elements, so not that much construction work or evidence.
jogos de carros
September 17th, 2011 at 1:05 pm
Google Translate Gets a New Google+ Inspired Design. .. a testing phase of the new design for some time, before Google made it official. Now …
December 3rd, 2011 at 9:22 pm
google translate is helping me soo much thanks to google for this feather .. frases de amor
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