Search Giant Google Goes Super-Sized
Eagle-eyed Google users will spot a bigger font on the search engine’s front page text search box, and the ‘Google search’ and ‘I’m Feeling Lucky’ buttons that go with it. The move comes in a bid to get those using the site to put in longer search strings.
It’s one of the first changes to the search engine’s front page in more than a decade.
Text, as well as the suggestion lists, in the box are larger, although the page’s overall weight remains more or less the same. Google has copyright on the design of its front page, and received a patent for its design at the start of this month.
The change is likely to be welcomed by those who work on laptops, who generally have to grapple with smaller displays and smaller fonts.
The bigger search field has been installed across the site, and is used on the search engine’s results page as well.
But if the larger Google search page is not to your liking, you can just make the font smaller by hitting the Control and ‘-‘ keys at the same time.
The company says in its blog: “This is a simple idea, but we’re excited about it because it symbolises our focus on search, and makes our clean, minimalist homepage easier and more fun to use.”
The blog adds: “Google has always been first and foremost about search, and we’re committed to building and powering the best search on the Web — now available through a super-sized search box.”
Additional reports say changes are being made to some versions of Firefox as well.
Some users are not seeing the change yet, since Google pores over every little change it makes, to assess how well the adjustment has been received, and it appears that this is what is happening now. Equally, changes are very thoroughly tested before being put into place.
And while the change may seem minor, given that millions of people use Google every day, any alteration, however apparently trivial, is bound to make the news.
Google may says its search engine is its priority, but it’s also been exploring beyond search to things like online advertising and payment processing, digital book processing, web browser software, mobile operating systems and applications, and is even working to develop new solar technology.
As to whether bigger really does mean better for most Googlers, only time will tell.
Post originally from this Cool Tech Blog – gizmodose.com (this line of text is here for scrapers!)
Search Giant Google Goes Super-Sized
