New Google?

[her209]

Anyone else seeing what I'm seeing?

New search text box. Left column toolbar.

 

[shortylickens]

No.
No one on anandtech has ever seen this before, ever.

 

[zinfamous]

is this a parody?

 

[her209]

is this a parody?

No. Is this a repost?

 

[paulney]

Obviously Google accepted her209 for a job

 

[DesiPower]

It became permanent now, till yesterday I was seeing it on and off. I no like. too bright colors, looks gaudy, AND looks like bing... what a shame... its like the coke's knee jerk reaction to loosing its market share to Pepsi...

 

[glenn beck]

hey wait! does youtube have a new video layout???? I must make a new post on this

 

[ViviTheMage]

Not sure I like it.

 

[her209]

It became permanent now, till yesterday I was seeing it on and off. I no like. too bright colors, looks gaudy, AND looks like bing... what a shame... its like the coke's knee jerk reaction to loosing its market share to Pepsi...

I've never seen this new design until today.

 

[Hacp]

I feel like I'm using AskJeeves/AltaVisa/Hotbot.

 

[Blackjack200]

I see the old google. Maybe it's becuase I'm using ie6?

 

[her209]

hey wait! does youtube have a new video layout???? I must make a new post on this

Hey, this thread is for Google.

 

[DesiPower]

I've never seen this new design until today.

I have been seeing it for more than a month now, on and off, became more and more frequent over time. In fact there was a thread about it at that time too, when they 1st release it, have you been missing classes? or not paying attention

 

[her209]

For those of you still seeing the old design, here's what it looks like:

 

[skace]

What’s new and what’s changed?
We’ve added contextually relevant, left-hand navigation to the page. This new side panel highlights the most relevant search tools and refinements for your query. Over the past three years, we've launched Universal Search, the Search Options panel and Google Squared, and it’s those three technologies that power the left-hand panel.

Universal Search helps you find the most relevant types of results for your search. The top section of the new left-hand panel builds on Universal Search by suggesting the most relevant genres of results for your query and letting you seamlessly switch to these different types of results. The “Everything” option remains our essential search experience with different types of results integrated into the main results, but now you can also easily switch to just the particular type of results you are looking for.

Our expandable Search Options panel launched last spring brought many rich slice-and-dice tools to search. The new left-hand navigation showcases these tools and enables you to get a different view of your results. Perhaps you’d like to see images from each of the results or just the newest information? These options are all on the left, and our technology will suggest the tools that are most relevant and helpful to your query.

Google Squared (available on Google Labs) helps you find and compare entities. Our “Something different” feature builds on the technology in Google Squared to find other entities that are related to your query, so you can easily explore not only the results for your current query but other related topics.

In addition to the left-hand side changes, we’ve updated our look and feel in terms of our color palette and our logo. These changes are slight, keeping our page minimalist and whimsical, but make our overall look more modern.

The new design refreshes and streamlines the look, feel and functionality of Google, making it easier to pinpoint what you’re looking for. It’s powerful, yet simple. Today’s changes are the latest in our continuing efforts to evolve and improve Google. We've been testing these changes with users over the past few months, and what we're launching today reflects the feedback we've received.. We want to ensure that the Google you use today is better than the one you used yesterday, and these latest changes open up many possibilities for future features and enhancements.

 

[Fritzo]

Yes, the new design went live today.

 

[Hacp]

I think the old design was more powerful and more simple.

 

[SunnyD]

Looks pretty much the same to me. Only difference I see are the search/lucky buttons are a bit bigger (not that I used them anyway).

 

[DougK62]

Looks more cartoony.

 

[glenn beck]

I think the old design was more powerful and more simple.

this, but it is still not that cluttered, so I can live with it