Google’s launched a new version of its home page, which displays only the logo, the search box, and the buttons. All the other fru-fru — and there wasn’t very much of it to begin with — fades in when you move the mouse.

When you compare that with Bing’s home page, which today is featuring an image of the Georgia Aquarium and a Zebra Shark, you’re seeing 2 different user interface approaches. Though I like a lot of Bing’s UI touches — the “more info” link for each hit, the advanced search options that open at the top of the results page instead of in a new page, the “show similar images” feature and the video pre-play, to name a few — I really don’t want to be distracted by shiny objects when I’m about to do a search.

Submitted by: Dan Giancaterino, Education Services Manager
on December 03, 2009 - 8:57 am

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