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Anybody else hates Newton's falling apple on Google's homepage?

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No, I thought it was kinda cool, and it wasn't Flash either which was nice.

I don't see what's wrong with it either. It's a pleasant surprise. They shouldn't go overboard with these things, that's all.

How is it done? JS?

I like it - it's a nice next step in their homepage doodles.

I tend to miss the doodles as I search from the address bar, and only end up on Google's homepage when I'm looking at them.

That'd be a second from me. It actually caused a firefox 2.0 running on an old computer here to glitch, the search bar never to appear and a clueless colleague to call and report that "the google is broken".

Whats next? Flash?

Who still uses Google's homepage anyway?

Actually, a lot of people have it as a start page. Usually not power-users, but many regular users have it this way.

No, thats cool, and for today only.

I think it is rather awesome that Google does these kinds of things. And they even make it clickable, so you learn something too!

Nope, it actually made me chuckle a little bit. First time Google's homepage ever made me do that.

Google is going the wrong way: First they had the distracting fade-in effect, and now the fallen apple. It is distracting and it will make you lose time. Don't like it!

Lose time? - 1 second?

It distracted me enough to go check HN, just out of curiosity how others like it -- so it's at least 30 seconds or so.

I personally don't like it because the apple falls over the search bar when I type there.

1 second attention span perhaps?

1 second * eleventy hojillion hits to the home page every day = a metric pants load of total time lost

There was a time when google considered a streamlined search landing page a feature, because it loaded fast and got out of the user's way. I guess times are changing.

As a one-day, one-time thing, I hardly think this is worthy of concern. With respect to the fading-in, in the blog post announcing it they said their studies showed that after users became accustomed to the change, they were using the new page faster than the old one. Data > Speculation

I don't like it. Google started cluttering their homepage a while ago (Fade-In effect, Upgrade to Chrome ad) ... I guess this is the next step.

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