Google: Let it snow

#1

Post by jakozaur » Sat, Dec 17, 2011, 2:03 PM UTC

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#2

Post by culturestate » Sat, Dec 17, 2011, 2:57 PM UTC

I wonder why they didn't enable this in their tablet layout. I thought performance at first, but It runs acceptably well on my iPad 2 when identifying as OSX Safari in terra browser, and the desktop version even responds to changes in the accelerometer.

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#3

Post by city41 » Sat, Dec 17, 2011, 2:58 PM UTC

I was hopeful the "defrost" button would simulate someone running their hand over the screen.

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#4

Post by nvk » Sat, Dec 17, 2011, 3:01 PM UTC

The "Defrost" button was a nice touch.

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#5

Post by lysol » Sat, Dec 17, 2011, 3:03 PM UTC

I see Google has decided to turn their search results page into every website from 1998.

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#6

Post by pablosanta » Sat, Dec 17, 2011, 3:04 PM UTC

Just plain old awesomeness from Google...

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#7

Post by davidpardo » Sat, Dec 17, 2011, 3:11 PM UTC

Doesn't work on the iPad. :(

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#8

Post by [deleted] » Sat, Dec 17, 2011, 3:12 PM UTC

city41 wrote: post #3

I was hopeful the "defrost" button would simulate someone running their hand over the screen.

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Post by DanBC » Sat, Dec 17, 2011, 3:13 PM UTC

pablosanta wrote: post #6

Just plain old awesomeness from Google...

Hacking away at the Labs is awesome. This? It's just tinkering with the UI. There are a gajillion different key word searches they could do; tilt tilts the screen, scary ghost scream waits ten seconds and then flashes a scary ghost on the screen with a scream; etc etc.

And, while they're doing that, and Google just works for most people there are a small group of users who'd really appreciate better documentation for searching. Wanna-be power users need to know how to combine terms or have options or how to use stemming etc. I dunno why a single page of instructions with examples is so hard to get.

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#10

Post by memset » Sat, Dec 17, 2011, 3:19 PM UTC

city41 wrote: post #3

I was hopeful the "defrost" button would simulate someone running their hand over the screen.

If you click and drag across the screen, then it will have the effect of doing this with your finger :)