Originally Posted by
obgraham
I'm with FareastDriver. They made the change, which really offers me not a single new benefit of note, yet is slower and glitchier.
Mee Too!
Worst Google tinker since the mad mad mad Marissa-Mayer-Purest-Blank google home page fiasco[1][2]. So Blank that nothing was displayed on it - except the search box. If you wanted say maps or news you had to wait until the delay timer delayed and then the relevant links slowly hove into view. The final insult, the links did not accept clicks until they were eventually fully rendered. Lasted a sad few months.
I spent weeks 'n' weeks and much tinkering wondering WTF was wrong with my computer before I found out that the delay and fade-in was by DESIGN. Who designs delays into machines? Start the car, no no no no no, you can't go anywhere until you have had time to admire the dashboard, the beautiful carpets, the finest rubber mats. EVERY TIME.
In Google's case you were supposed to admire the Holy Blankness.
She soon left and was CEO of Yahoo for 5 years.
I think that the problem is that the software world is full of teenage tinkerers who are sure that we all love reading the manuals to discover where they hid our most favoured features. Trouble is that now there are no manuals.
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[1]
https://www.quora.com/Did-Marissa-Ma...ears-at-Google - "the single search bar in the center of infinite white space!"
[2]
https://edition.cnn.com/2012/07/17/t...yer/index.html - "The minimalist home page, with plenty of white space and a single search bar in the center, is said to be the brainchild of Mayer"