I don’t like the new Google design

May 14, 2010 porkchop No comments

I was browsing the Internet around a week ago on google search, which I use all the time, and during some search pages I noticed a different google page, not the google page we are use to seeing. Right as I saw this, I thought, I got some spyware, and my browser’s google page got modified. I quickly cleared the cache, ran virus scans, spyware programs, nothing found. Then I did a search on google “new google design” and came to this link http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Web+Search/thread?tid=2b617300e762035c&hl=en I thought wow, why hasn’t google added a little bit of text on the top informing people on this update, I bet a lot of people got confused like me seeing this new look!

Google and Bing look the same! Click on image enlarge

I have to say the new google look, I don’t like it, I am so use to the old google layout and design from all the years, and now change makes it a bit harder. It still looks the same pretty much except they aligned everything to the right of the page making the search results cramped and a bunch of white space on the right side, maybe it’s add space like Bing’s, but I cannot see it because of adblock. Another thing I don’t like about the search is the missing tick box for country search, that was conveniently located below the search box, now its on the right hand side, you have to click it on it and it reloads the page, unlike the tick box, where you actually just tick and search the term.

Google surprisingly also looks very similar to bing.com search that obviously looks like yahoo’s search. I’m not sure why google has decided to go this way, I’m not sure if Bing/yahoo is hurting googles numbers since the merger, but I doubt it. Looking online lots of people are complaining about the new google search look, google has had that design for a long time, and people liked and were used to it, that’s why they used google. Looking online at forums and other blogs, most people hate the new google design, and wished that google would have included a option to turn on “classic view”. A lot of people are saying to use the mobile browser edition of google at http://www.google.com/m I personally don’t like it plus the images in search are small.

Well, I won’t stop using google, I’ll just have to get use to the new design from all the years of the old one, hopefully they will release an update allowing people to pick classic view.