pcworld.com — Google is testing a new homepage design in Taiwan and Hong Kong that takes advantage of faster broadband speeds in those markets, says Sergey Brin, co-founder. The site's new test design ditches Google's famously clean homepage look, adding rows of animated icons.
Jul 24, 2007 View in Crawl 4
ekstasis16Jul 24, 2007
In all fairness, those countries are tiny compared the the US and probably have much newer comm infrastructures, but.......some day, some day.
quikboyJul 24, 2007
Yeah, I agree with you. I have a Live.com homepage and it really works great. It's not cluttered or anything. It's really simplistic like, and it's awesome. I agree with you about this.
Closed AccountJul 25, 2007
dugg down because their HTML is the opposite of 'bloated' and anyone who has eyes and can 'view source' sees that.Most of the errors in te validator are not defined because Google omits things required by standard that most browsers can live without to make the code more compact.
unknownczarJul 25, 2007
canada has four times faster internet speed then the US on average. is it tiny too?
a007proxyJul 25, 2007
I was thinking the exact same thing. Maybe there is something special about these igoogle pages, but they look to be the same as mine to me
grumpyrainJul 25, 2007
To be fair, I get 23.2Mbps at home (I live a stones throw from our exchange). The large part of the problem here is a certain large unnamed formerly government owned telco who has a monopoly over the infrastructure and who is doing their best to keep prices high and speed low.
stockjonesJul 25, 2007
Wow Google technology breaking new ground with rollovers. Why?Marketing dept must be pushing for eye candy
thailand1972Jul 25, 2007
I would say you have no clue about HTML markup based on your comment. Let me give you specific examples on Google's bloated code:-- inline styling such as font tags - and get this - NESTED font tags too! And get this, NESTED font tags both stating font size (making the outer font tag totally redundant. This is poor HTML. Use a stylesheet and don't do everything inline.- nested tables. No need for nested tables. I'm not anti-tables, but to make your layout with nested tables is unnecessary and bloats the HTML output- image spacers for layout - no,no,no.....use CSS please.- empty tags (e.g. < center > < / center > - this is just sillyOpposite of bloated? There's just too much redundant markup that can EASILY be cleaned up to ignore this. There's no defense for such markup (unless you're a stubborn fanboy with no knowledge of what you're talking about).