Ask HN: What is up with Google?

9 points·sliverstorm··11 comments

It seems Google has been selecting me recently as a guinea pig for a new design:

http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/1460/googlewb.png

(I know imageshack is a poor image host, but I'd rather not use personal accounts to link this image)

Anyone familiar with a way I can opt out, back to the old scheme?

I thought everyone was seeing this? I've been hearing tons of complaints from my room mates and friends, and former schoolmates. No one likes the damn sidebar.

Yeah; there was a bunch of HN discussion yesterday as well: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1327132

And here's Google's blog post about it: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/spring-metamorphosis-...

yeah! google has changed the design. ewveryone hates this change. :(

btw, here is the trick to get back the original layout: http://goo.gl/qzlL

I don’t and hardly anybody I know noticed (I asked).

You can use old design here http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=all

Yeah! Now google is closer to the design of bing and yahoo!

LOL HN has been littered with tons of articles about this rolling out for like the last 3 days. Every official Google blog has mentioned it.

And you used imageshack. Wow.

Pointlessly mean comments aren’t tolerated here.

I've noticed you can't make mean comments that have a point either.

If "mean" is a tone, i.e. a manifestation of cruelty, then it's not well tolerated. Harsh when necessary seems to be.

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