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- abbott75, on 10/12/2007, -2/+123This guy is raking in the profits from referred Google searches now. Pretty sneaky though ;)
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+95It was an actual project by Google: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_X
- rompom7, on 10/12/2007, -9/+103No, Apple asked them to take it down, and they did.
Apple owns the patent to icons in a bar resizing when a mouse rolls over. It's ridiculous. I don't think that Apple would have actually sued Google over it, but they did take it down because Apple DID threaten them.
[humor]Apple probably owns the patent to the letter X as well, so calling it GoogleX was another reason Apple threatened.[/humor]
*added humor tags to prevent the fun police from digging me down - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -12/+94If Google looked like that their pagesize would have been bigger & slower than their competitors and they'd have fizzled and died years ago.
- Copperhe4d, on 10/12/2007, -2/+80wait!....you found this over the ajax thing, right?
http://digg.com/tech_news/miniAJAX_com_Amazing_DHTML_and_AJAX_Code - growlzor, on 10/12/2007, -6/+50wtf is google?
- corsairstw, on 10/12/2007, -4/+46They had this awhile back called "Google Ex" or something like that but it was taken down pretty quickly. I think they were afraid of Apple's copyright lawyers coming to get them - even though the page was meant as a tribute. People saved the code and hosted it elsewhere after Google removed it from their servers.
- cds0528, on 10/12/2007, -5/+36for those who use NoScript, make sure you allow this site, I felt like a moron when I finally figured out why the icons weren't getting bigger...
(sorry for comment abuse) - mightyulysses, on 10/12/2007, -1/+31The only thing that looks like Mac OSX is the icons getting larger like the dock, not much else...
- thatgirlismine, on 10/12/2007, -7/+36"Mac OS X"
- Pliep, on 10/12/2007, -1/+26This is VERY old but was made by Google labs as a tribute to Mac OS X.
- denhamcoote, on 10/12/2007, -12/+37Read www.webpagesthatsuck.com
This is a classic case of 'Mystery Meat' navigation. I'll stick to Vanilla Google, thanks. :) - SR388, on 10/12/2007, -0/+23using spacebar would've add ed too many preci ous sec onds to the sub miss ion..
- obey43, on 10/12/2007, -0/+21http://www.theplaceforitall.com/googlex/
- Greyarea, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Google for it.
- championchap, on 10/12/2007, -4/+16@rompom
Are you kidding me?
So what about dock apps like the Object Dock from Stardock?
http://www.stardock.com/products/objectdock/
Why hasnt this come under fire yet? - GMorgan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12There should be a list of crappy patents somewhere so we can add stuff like that.
- aliguana, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10erm... looks nothing like Mac OSX. Looks like a bad Gnome clone
- bestadvocate, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11iDo2
- geuisteses, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Christ THIS IS OLD. SEVERAL YEARS.
- ThirdPrize, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Really, the lamest thing I have ever seen on the front page.
- wierdaaron, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Old as sin and not very mac-specific. There were zoom-in rollovers long before the Dock came around.
- chicagobiker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7"This guy is raking in the profits from referred Google searches now. Pretty sneaky though ;)"
Is that what Dave Watanabe is doing by having us Safari folks use his Inquistor plug-in?
http://www.inquisitorx.com/safari/ - themoose, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7...old?
- remydlc, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8iGoogle
- maxshanly, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6This is frickin' old. Google did this about a year or so ago and Apple made them take it off via a C&D. :P
You newb. :D - grayapple, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Isn't Myriad an Adobe font?
- neosublime, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8You should create a Greasemonkey script, or a user style for stylish. I think the script would work better.
BTW: doesnt display properly in Safari, but looks great in Firefox. But it could be my ad-blocking plugins. - Teaboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Myriad Pro
http://www.adobe.com/type/browser/P/P_1706.html - Adenosine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Looks more Tango/Gnome-ish than OSX
- Ignignokt01, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5There's a reason why google has never changed their default page. The less images on google, the less they have to pay for bandwidth. Seriously, if they even added one more image, it would nearly double their bandwidth costs.
- sjrberg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4What the heck? This is just GoogleX! (From way back when) LAME!!
- po6ot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4ya, these icons don't really conform to the Apple Human Interface Guidlines
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/OSXHIGuidelines/XHIGIntro/chapter_1_section_1.html
The style is much more Tango/Gnome. - comradeTJH, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4But it doesn't find things faster or better just if some fancy pictures gets bigger when mouseovering. I like google as it is now.
- fengshui, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Yep is a rip of the Google X setup and copied from a recent Digg post about Mini Ajax.
Has anyone else spotted the poster's blog and it's latest post on Original Content and a quote:
"Do you know how those guys got big in the first place. Original content. So copying them isn’t going to get you anywhere."
Seems like he needs to follow his own advice:
http://blogsblog.joeanderson.co.uk/original-content#respond - redlemon, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5@schoate09
their entire business model depends on them having unique (and patented) design and function. plus their lawyers are probably dick monkeys just like everyone else's lawyers. - dioxide, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4if you read the source to this page, things like the graphics are in a google_ex directory. this may just be a mirror of googles beta site before apple asked them to take it down.
- computerjoe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3As the owner of joeanderson.co.uk, I can assure you this page is simply just a mirror of a freely available script.
Also, I am not earning money through referred Google searches :P - sfacets, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3There is (or was) a gresemokey script... userscripts.org
- inkswamp, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4> most of its usersfans would arrogant, pompus, narrow minded idiots.
Most or a vocal few?
If you think that way of most Mac users, then the only arrogance around here is coming from you. - marcamillion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The most amazing thing about this post is the fact that after 2000+ diggs in a short-space of time, the site is still up and responding quickly. I seriously was expecting to have to look at a mirror.
*thumbs up* to the host. - dougmc, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4`This is a classic case of 'Mystery Meat' navigation'
Yes, it is, but it's OK. From the site you linked to, http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/biggest-mistakes-in-web-design-1995-2015.html, they say this --
There are certain sites that are allowed to use MMN: music, band, movie, art, experimental, fashion — sites where making an impression or being cool is mandatory. It’s OK because nobody really cares about these sites and their purpose isn’t really about making money.
I'd say this (experimental, being cool is mandatory, nobody cares, not about making money) fits this site to a tee, does it not?
But I agree, `mystery meat' sucks. But this is one of the less sucky examples of it's use that I've seen, even though I'm not a particularly big fan of the Mac OS X interface. - Jaymoon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2http://www.freewebs.com/goooglex/
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Yup. And it's just as annoyingly useless as Apple's Dock. And that's coming from a hard core mac user.
This is over a year old. Neat tech demo, but not really a big deal. - IceBurrg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This is so old it hurts.
- cfizzo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2***** old. marked as lame
- insovietrussia, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3If a Mac looked like Yahoo I'd switch to Altavista.
- Zippo, on 10/12/2007, -10/+12Clean up the reflection of the Google logo, maybe streamline the code as much as possible, and you've got a winner. I certainly wouldn't mind if Google actually looked like this... really nice work on the Dock.
- HondaDarrell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This one has more more features.
http://googlex.jayssite.com/ - Miche1987, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Dugg for linking to the secure (HTTPS) Gmail link.
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