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How the mighty have fallen, how far, how sad.

Once the Google home page was a master class in good design.

Has it ever been? The page used center tags last I checked and a mountain of spec violating stuff but technically works on all browsers.

Using the google page as a reference would be like ripping a few note pages from a physicists workbook as an example to learn math.

Sergey used to demand that the payload of the home page be tiny (I think it had to be < 100K, if I recall -- or maybe even smaller). That was part of the appeal of the simple search page, nothing but a logo and a search field. Now it looks minimal-ish, but contains a bunch of crap that serves only Google, not the end-user.

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