Google in regression – welcome back Altavista!
June 10, 2010
Its early morning. Im just doing the first search of the day. My brain is still only half conscious and my eye vision a bit blurry…
08:03:01:121: Message from visual-cortex to conscious-part-of-brain: WARNING – WE ARE EXPERIENCING EXTREMELY SLOW PROCESSING IN VISUAL CORTEX OF GOOGLE FRONT PAGE.
08:03:01:498: Message from conscious-part-of-brain to visual-cortex: That can’t be – leave me alone…
08:03:04:911: Conscious-part-of-brain: WHAT THE F… HAPPENED TO GOOGLE???
Google - the new Altavista?
Why did you switch to google many years ago and never look back? For me Altavista put way too much strain on my brain by stuffing the search page with ads and uninteresting news while shuffling the location of the actual search field and search button from time to time. Google however had the search field dead center and nothing else on the page to prolong my 4ms long visual scan of the page. After using google for a while I realized that their search results were also better than Altavista.
With the new and ever changing background google is in regression. Maybe not to the state of how things were with Altavista, but definitely as bad as Bing.
When Google wanted to put ads on the search result pages people thought the good times were over – but Google managed to do it in a way that was non-obtrusive. I have wondered how Google kept showing good judgment when introducing new features and channels of revenue – after all that is not what you would expect of any company once it has grown large. You expect it to lose its cleverness and agile characteristics to become just another dogmatic management and marketing driven operation. I think Googles move to copy Bings backgrounds is a sign that Google has finally reached the latter stage.
If any search engine out there is looking for new customers I guess now is the right time to make a frontpage with no noise – only fast search. Those savvy internet users who have no time for nonsense and are heavily reliant on search every day are looking for a new search provider..
Hope Google support will soon answer the questions: How do I remove the background image
Update: supposedly the background images goes away on friday.. maybe? Read here.
