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Google's New Page Fade Effect

google.com — So about five minutes ago I was performing some searches on Google.com and after the result pagr from the initial search loaded, I added another word to the search. When I clicked search however, the page faded right into the new result page, almost AJAX like... wonder what those boys are up to...?

Who dugg this?

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  • sam3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2They're always up to something, but, I don't see what the point of this would be.
  • bbianchi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1IE6, it definantly wasnt my browser trust me on that on. Its so locked down that unless its coming from the page then its something else.

    I Went to google.com. I searched for something like '"Game Over" T-Shirt' and didnt like my results, so I added 'Green', and when I clicked search instead of the normal new results page just poping up, it faded from my old results to the new ones.
  • electrichead, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1What exactly did you do? I didn't see anything.
  • bbianchi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1IE6 SP2 Win XP
  • bbianchi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It actually looked pretty cool... since the top portion of the page is prettymuch static, page to page, it made it appear as if just the search resulted faded into the new ones instead of the whole page flashing really quick.
  • ionut, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1go to internet settings / advanced and uncheck "Enable page transitions". do you still see the fade effect?
  • chesterjosiah, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Here's the link that WarpFox is referring to:
    http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/04/this-is-test-this-is-only-test.html

    Remember: Google spends 90% of their time on search.
  • RyeBrye, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Maybe if I searched for "Lame" and then added "Digg submission" it would fade into your submission here - which has as much independent verification as the University of Utah "Cold Fusion" experiment.
  • WarpFox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0read the google blog. they're probobly testing something on you, other users may not get what you're getting
  • szembek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0What browser were you using?
  • tazzy531, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0You'll notice that the header bar loads faster than the rest of the page. I think this is what you were seeing. But the code looks like it's doing a full page refresh..not ajax.
  • n8ster, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0doesn't do it for me.

    Tired it on Firefox and IE 7 B2

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