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September 22, 2006

Try Google's Updated Design Experiment

Google has updated their experimental design of the search result pages, that shows the services in a left sidebar.

If you want to try it, copy this code:

javascript:document.cookie="PREF= ID=ad93daafaa747f70:TM=1158373640:LM=1158374016:GM=1:S=wNuiLiKHrkRnMZtf; path=/; domain=.google.com"

go to google.com, paste it in the address bar, then go to the preferences and click "Save preferences".

If you want to go back to the original design, just delete your Google cookie.




{ Via Googlified. }

Related:
Other design experiments
User experience at Google

10 comments:

  1. hmm, i'm not sure... I prefer the old way

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  2. Eh...

    Your screenshot looks pretty good, but the results I have on my 1400x1050 LCD panel look messy. I assume you're using your WM device to view those results.

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  3. Why can't it work in Chinese!(Still www.google.com)

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  4. It looks good to me (on my notebook). It should work for localized Google domains, but you have to replace google.com with google.--- in the JS code.

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  5. hmmm that's weird... about a month or so ago i was getting Google search results exactly like that experiment one, but only when i search it while I'm logged on to my Google Account. I know it wasn't a firefox extension and I didn't put any codes or anything. Could it be possible that they were already experimenting this on some users?

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  6. I don't like the experimental design. I love the old way. It is easy to use, and is a better use of space.

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  7. i have also experienced that arif, and it annoyed me. the different layout appears seemingly randomly for me, but a refresh puts it back to the old way.
    the old way is much better. in the new way, you are wasting space down the left side of the screen. i cant see what you are gaining. its also bad having your search rewritten in such a narrow column

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  8. I don't like it at all. I like my definition links and query data up the top.
    How do i revert?

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  9. Haha... Never mind.
    I didn't read the last line of the post.

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  10. My $0.02: English is read from left to right. I tend to like having the most relevant content occupy the left-most, top-most position of the page so that it can be scanned quickly. In an RTL language, the right side might be better.

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