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Google is testing a cleaner, leaner UI on Google.com

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How about rolling it back to about 2008 before they started copying Bing's look and feel.

I finally turned off javascript for all google domains except gmail, cannot stand it anymore.

ps. if you want to do the same, try YesScript plugin, much lighter than NoScript

Care to explain what exactly you can not stand anymore?

For me it's the fact that 9 times out of 10 it just wastes time. I want to do a search for these keywords, I don't want suggestion, I don't want preview, I don't want a selection of related pictures, please get out of my way, thanks.

The secure version at https://www.google.com/ has less of the crap that the insecure version has, like the preview stuff. Alternatively, there's always https://ssl.scroogle.org/

Yes encrypted.google.com is really fast, it even has google instant, but I had to turn it off as my default choice in chrome because it won't let you search images. Video and news work but not images.

How is that “like Bing”? I just signed into Bing to test this and, well, this is how their topbar looks:

http://s.deno.pl/bingbar

If anything, it's Bing's topbar resembling Google Search rather than the other way around. And, mind you, Google started pushing their online profiles[1] some while ago—it was only a matter of time until they integrate it better with their main product.

[1] http://www.google.com/profiles

I've had this UI for days. It's definitely less of Google's typical 1990s retro style.

Color me jealous. I dig the changes. The dropdowns are handy.

I started seeing it yesterday, and I love it. Unfortunately, it's only on my work computer. My home laptop has yet to get the update. I'd like to see this style rolled out across all their apps.

Odd that, too. Are you using your same Google account on both computers?

Yep... same account, same browser (Chrome), and both Macs.

While i like the change, I don't understand the choice for a drop down menu at the right side. Rolling over a button to read you name and email, a link to your profile (which I most probably will not find very useful ) and sign out button (which I want to be super easy to access) seems just adding complexity (both visual and behavioral), without improving anything.

Apart from that, I hope that they will add an option to customize the links on the left side.

You can now enable multiple account sign-in, I guess this is for switching between them.

i just tried google translate and the experience was dramatically less user-friendly than i recall

I approve, the nav-bar is in need of renovation.

it still baffles me why that nav-bar isn't, why it doesn't populate with the services you use most often you.

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