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I used to disable adblock on Google since I didn't find the ads intrusive. However the ads blends right into the results with the new changes, so I'm re-enabling it. Though overall I assume Google will get a revenue boost from their change to the ads.
I imagine this will lead to more ad clicks since people know by now that the peach background means that's an ad. Also, it makes more sense to go to the real source: http://searchengineland.com/googles-new-look-search-results-... which has covered this many times before.
And this is what scares me. Google ads are just plain dangerous. If they removed the malicious results this wouldn't be such a problem, but turn off your ad blocker and search for VLC. Your top result will be malware and that's what most of my friends click. Any step to further disguise ads is a step further in this malware propagating itself.
I imagine this will lead to more ad clicks since people know by now that the peach background means that's an ad. Also, it makes more sense to go to the real source: http://searchengineland.com/googles-new-look-search-results-... which has covered this many times before.
I know the graphic designers have long since won this battle, but I still feel like there's value in underlining links. Underlined links are discoverable -- it's obvious at a glance that they are links, rather than body text. Underlined links are noticeable -- they stand out from a sea of non-underlined text, drawing the eye to them. Underlined links are self-explanatory -- it's obvious what you're supposed to do wit…
First time I met this 'new' design, I thought it was a rendering bug[0]. Next time I understood it was testing, and I just thought 'why' ? Google seems desperate to find things to tweak while ignoring things that I find obvious: - right click event turns the url in a trackable monstrosity [1] - shortened url can't be copied [2] - no, sharing doesn't only mean 'publish on g+' - filters could be made faster [3] - g+ ha…
Soundcloud has almost entirely replaced youtube for me in the music sense, the problem seems to be that there's no video service "core" enough that "everyone" uploads "everything" to it. A lot of handwaving there, but youtube has a certain amount of critical mass in that area, AFAIK. (if I'm living in a little google bubble, I'd appreciate other video services, but I feel like I'm aware of most of the main ones ala vimeo, and as I said, critical mass.)
Note: I feel like google treats most of their services like this. I personally have felt nothing but decreased usability since the not-TOO-far-removed-from-pure-html days of gmail. (The pinnacle for me was shortly after the integration of gchat and the polish that came after, but before the great whitespace apocalypse.)
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First time I met this 'new' design, I thought it was a rendering bug[0]. Next time I understood it was testing, and I just thought 'why' ? Google seems desperate to find things to tweak while ignoring things that I find obvious: - right click event turns the url in a trackable monstrosity [1] - shortened url can't be copied [2] - no, sharing doesn't only mean 'publish on g+' - filters could be made faster [3] - g+ ha…
A personal anecdote: I was an avid youtube user, but their nearly ceaseless iteration of everything from sidebar contents to full on page layouts and link availability (I remember a time when one could go from the video listing of one channel belonging to one user directly to another channel's usable video links. This now takes 2-3 clicks, depending on your definition of usable.) has me at a point where I get frustra…
Youtube still gets my love because of the amount of obscure old songs you can find there (forgotten videos, LP). AFAIK SoundCloud is full obscure recent songs :)
The adds are bigger and a lot less distinguishable as ads. The only thing distinguishing them now is the small "Ad" bubble. At my screen resolution, about 70% of real estate is now filled with ads. I get an AltaVista deja-vu. Google, for the record, I used to like your non-invasive, targeted ads, but I now installed AdBlock as a direct result of this change.
I visited my family over the holidays and was shocked to see that the ad background was completely invisible on their crappy Dell LCDs.
Google making meaningless changes in the direction of minimalism like always. I find the google search of today no more usable or intuitive than that of 10 years ago. Minimalism is such a plague. It assumes people can't deal with the mildest hint of non-mission-critical information on the screen, which is false, or at least it used to be; if it catches on too much people's minds might get so rotted that they get conf…
I find the google search of today no more usable or intuitive than that of 10 years ago. Do you find it any less usable, though? We've been good at dealing with visual noise forever, before computers, before civilization. Then we should be good at dealing with Google results without underlines too, right?
The lack of underlines doesn't really impact the usability at all except that it's an unneeded change that some are going to find jarring. Looking at google results myself now, it feels "off". That's a lot more "distracting" than the presence of admittedly not really necessary underlines. But change for its own sake, especially in UI, does more harm than good often.
I know the graphic designers have long since won this battle, but I still feel like there's value in underlining links. Underlined links are discoverable -- it's obvious at a glance that they are links, rather than body text. Underlined links are noticeable -- they stand out from a sea of non-underlined text, drawing the eye to them. Underlined links are self-explanatory -- it's obvious what you're supposed to do wit…
Either you have no idea what it means to be colorblind or you are talking about an extremely small percentage of all colorblind people.
I know the graphic designers have long since won this battle, but I still feel like there's value in underlining links. Underlined links are discoverable -- it's obvious at a glance that they are links, rather than body text. Underlined links are noticeable -- they stand out from a sea of non-underlined text, drawing the eye to them. Underlined links are self-explanatory -- it's obvious what you're supposed to do wit…
Underlined blue text is still the most obvious visual indicator of a link
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