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shitlord
If it's an internal tool that works great but doesn't look beautiful, then what incentive is there to fix it? All you would end up doing is changing the design without adding new features. Maybe some internal company tools are scraping the DOM of that site, so they might actually break existing tools by redesigning. In any case, I don't see much technical debt here, and there isn't much to gain by redesigning.
tomlock
Totally agreed! I'm not criticizing, I was just a little surprised because of Google's reputation as an innovator. I also totally expect corporate tools to be static for long periods of time, so I'm also not surprised based on overall trends.
karissa
unfortunately, Google has lost that reputation.
krasin
If I recall correctly, web 2.0 was about user-generated content. The image on the right is likely the one.
indiefan
If you think that's bad, you should see their public facing page.
clintonc
eye roll

What is the purpose of a non-"web 1.0" login page? This is not to win customers; it's supposed to work. And for thousands and thousands of employees every day, this works just fine.

tomlock
Agreed. I'm just surprised is all. I expected google to have bucked the corporate trend and have the "flying car" of login pages. I was wrong!
jamesrom
Does anyone else find the random images creepy as fuck?
benley
What's creepy about them? I don't know if this is still the case, but for many years the images on the corpsso login page were photos taken and shared by googlers. It was just for fun.
BaconJuice
random images that are very SFW creep you out? =/
nevi-me
I assume this is in reference to the article about Google opening up their corporate tools/services to their users on the Internet, but I've seen this MOMA login page (at least what I call it) before last year and probably before that too. On that premise I assume @google.com users have been able to log in from the Internet for a while, anyone have some light to shed on what's recently changed? :)
rohanprabhu
It is the MOMA login page :) From my time at google (around 6 months ago), you can access this page for a lot of services, but some of them will be accessible only from the intranet (or if you login to a VPN from the internet). What has changed is the number of services that are now accessible from the internet.

Also, when I was working there, I could not remote into my desktop from my company laptop from my home without signing onto VPN. Not sure of that has changed, but they wished to phase out VPN completely.

azurezyq
for ssh, they use chrome ssh plugin and connect via ssh-over-http now. no vpn needed.
[dead] ossreality
secure shell is NOT ssh-over-http
icco
It's not not just MOMA, but any corporate website. The assumption of "oh, they're on the corp network, they must be a googler" has been removed.
pests
One of the two JS files included is readable without any extra work.

Also this interesting HTML comment at the top of the page:

    <!--googleoff: all-->
pestaa
Could it be a special directive to Google Chrome?
beejiu
That's just a special instruction to the Google 'Search Appliance' not to crawl the page contents.
Aoyagi
Outrageous. It brings back memories of sites that were simple, fully functional, light, and designed in a non-obnoxious way.