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.
Yeah, this doesn’t look good at all.
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.
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.
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.)
“It was said that you would destroy the Sith, not join them!”
I completely forgot about this!
I miss iGoogle. It was kind of nice to have your own personalized homepage. But I guess it died cause nobody sets homepages anymore.
Regardless, Windows widgets have replaced iGoogle for me. Been using them since Vista, currently use them in 11.
I found a spiritual successor for it in https://start.me, and I bought a lifetime subscription since I was going to block the ads anyway and I want to support the project.
This is trash
If it’s anything like Bing, it’ll just be a way for them to slip in ads.
But… There’s already a Google news page. I have it set as my homepage. I never hit the home button so I never see it, but it’s there.
