Google is not just going to let Apple dominate the news today with their new product announcement and Steve Jobs re-apperance on Apple’s stage. And so Google announced a big enhancement (literally) – the famous Google Search Box just got bigger.
It’s a simple enhancement, no effect whatsoever on Google’s searching capability or functionality. Google is just making a statement here, stating the obvious – Google is all about search and it is but proper that the search box should look bigger. Aside from the bigger search box, Google is also making the search terms you enter larger as well as the search suggestions that appear when you time your search terms.
The announcement was made by none other than Google’s Marissa Meyer. And she ended it by saying:
“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 supersized search box.’
I dont understand why Google does that? it looks bad
The font is just so big and disturbing!
I totally agree with “George of the Jungle”: the large font really anoys me: I’m not blind!
Browers displaying different size fonts (control +/-) to their defined anoys me as much as people using windows not fully maximised!
I keep forgetting and trying to resize the font size to make the text smaller!
I’m going to write a small FF addon to save myself…
Go here:
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2009/09/bring-back-small-google-search-box.html?showComment=1253006765523#c7609058197794550711
Look for Alex Chitu’s post September 13 2009. Works beautifully.
Such an un-necessary change to suit a minority of users. Choices are good, forcing HUGE fonts are bad. If like me, you don’t like the change, set your homepage to something else and just stop using GOOGLE.
They’ll finally get the hint when their ad revenue starts to drop.
Youre going to stop using google over a font change? Really? Seems pretty unrealistic. Have fun with msn as your new home page lol
A bunch of BS. Maybe I don’t everyone around me to be able to read what I am searching from a mile away. This won’t attract more users if anything it will detract the current ones.
what were they thinking?!
if i need them big, i would need the results as big.
that’s why they invented the middle button scroller and the ctrl key. it’s all i need.
change it back!!!!