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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