I don’t know about everyone else, but I’m starting to get insanely pissed off with Google. They keep changing their site. First their homepage with the ridiculous Google Fade. Now their search listings have updated.

It appears Google is on a mission to alienate and anger their users. Mission accomplished. You know why I don’t use other searches? Because there’s too much clutter in the results. Google is simple. You type something, it shows results. Thanks. End of transaction. No need to show me “OH! Because you typed ‘gonorrhea’ you might like AIDS!!!” or “See news about ‘gonorrhea!’” No thanks. Just show me the listings. Or would you like to see images of gonorrhea?? If I did, I’d click the “Images” link you so graciously supply on top.

So now Google is on a quest to be more like Yahoo. Idiots. Google, why do you think nobody uses Yahoo? Why do you think everyone uses Google? IT’S THE FUCKING INTERFACE, you dumb shits. Are you really too fucking stupid to realize this? The more you copy other search engines, the more your appeal slips into the ether.

I really want to not hate you Google, but you make it so hard lately. PLEASE STOP FUCKING WITH YOUR INTERFACE.

Google recently made a change to their main search page. Everything besides logo, search box, and buttons is now hidden until the page is moused over.

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What the fuck? Your search page was so simple. So clean. There was nothing to fix, nothing to make simpler. There was minimalist navigation on the top, and a few links on the bottom. It worked very well and was very good design.

You took something very simple, and tried to make it simpler. You have not succeeded. You took what you view as a problem and swept it under the rug. Your homepage isn’t simpler at all…it just LOOKS simpler at first glance. Then with first mouseover, it fades in?! What the fuck are you thinking?

This is the kind of childish effect a high-schooler learning HTML 4 would hack into his first homepage with shitty javascript. It looks nifty the FIRST TIME but after that it’s completely obnoxious and frustrating. I don’t want to wait to click on Images or News. Even if it’s 1/2 second.

To use the words of a blog commenter: “Imagine being at your desk preparing to work, but the desk chair would not appear until you try to sit down.” This is exactly how I feel.

If you really want to keep your juvenile display of javascript skillz, please give people an option to disable it so we don’t have to keep a bucket nearby in case new the homepage induces violent bouts of vomiting. Until then, I (and several others from the sounds of it) will be using Bing.
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