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An update on the Google bar

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I use Google Voice. Unfortunately that's nowhere to be found on my "google bar".

Yes, I see Translate, Offers, Blogger, Finance, Books, and Music, none of which I use. But I don't see Voice which is in the same account.

It makes no sense to follow the bookmarks by one company or another because they're always changing causing your habits to break. I would build my own in the browser and that would only change when I want it to change.

What's been frustrating for me, historically, is that the dropdown list is different for different parts of Google. For example, compare it at google.com and at gmail.com.

I think they're trying to improve it -- looks like in Gmail it lists services you use first, like Reader and YouTube, but not Voice? -- but it's certainly not consistent. Plus with each re-organization you have to re-learn all over again.

Apparently google fired all of its designers. "Where should we put this?" "STICK IT IN A BIG LIST."

Imagine if every program had a "File" menu and nothing else, with all the same options.

Am I crazy, or am I not the only one that never actually got the Google bar in the first place? It never came up on my account.

I just got it like yesterday. I can't believe they're changing it back already.

Will this eventually reorder based on my habits? HNers will probably still bitch if the items moved around. DAMN YOU GOOGLES!

Please, learn from the experience of Office. Menus that change themselves confuse and infuriate every type of user --- experts, developers, novices, etc.

People build up muscle memory, and breaking it unexpectedly leads to very angry users.

Does google ever hire people that specialize only in design? It seems like a technical programming background is required. Does anyone know otherwise?

While they were screwing around with this irrelevant nonsense, THEY BROKE SEARCH TODAY!!

Yes, all day none of the outbound links from Google search worked unless cookies were enabled. Unbelievable. They really have taken their eyes off the ball.

(They seem to have fixed it now.)

Do you have a link to a writeup? I haven't heard of anything like that.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=725634

I did not experience that at all and had 300+ cookie free searches today. Also, I doubt the UI team is a part of the search SRE - please don't muck up this article with irrelevant complaints about the same company.

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