HN Explorer

17 comments

[ 2.6 ms ] story [ 52.7 ms ] thread
noonespecial
That'd be a second from me. It actually caused a firefox 2.0 running on an old computer here to glitch, the search bar never to appear and a clueless colleague to call and report that "the google is broken".

Whats next? Flash?

nexneo
No, thats cool, and for today only.
anyone
Google is going the wrong way: First they had the distracting fade-in effect, and now the fallen apple. It is distracting and it will make you lose time. Don't like it!
babyboy808
Lose time? - 1 second?
InclinedPlane
1 second * eleventy hojillion hits to the home page every day = a metric pants load of total time lost

There was a time when google considered a streamlined search landing page a feature, because it loaded fast and got out of the user's way. I guess times are changing.

pwmanagerdied
As a one-day, one-time thing, I hardly think this is worthy of concern. With respect to the fading-in, in the blog post announcing it they said their studies showed that after users became accustomed to the change, they were using the new page faster than the old one. Data > Speculation
fff
1 second attention span perhaps?
oliveoil
It distracted me enough to go check HN, just out of curiosity how others like it -- so it's at least 30 seconds or so.

I personally don't like it because the apple falls over the search bar when I type there.

cubicle67
No, I thought it was kinda cool, and it wasn't Flash either which was nice.
artagnon
I don't see what's wrong with it either. It's a pleasant surprise. They shouldn't go overboard with these things, that's all.
nudded
I think it is rather awesome that Google does these kinds of things. And they even make it clickable, so you learn something too!
fretje
Who still uses Google's homepage anyway?
gnoupi
Actually, a lot of people have it as a start page. Usually not power-users, but many regular users have it this way.
MrMatt
I like it - it's a nice next step in their homepage doodles.

I tend to miss the doodles as I search from the address bar, and only end up on Google's homepage when I'm looking at them.

c1sc0
I don't like it. Google started cluttering their homepage a while ago (Fade-In effect, Upgrade to Chrome ad) ... I guess this is the next step.
bmickler
Nope, it actually made me chuckle a little bit. First time Google's homepage ever made me do that.