December 19, 2005
Google Moves Tabs to Side Bar in UI Test
Read complete article by rustybrick from Search Engine Roundtable
Posted by Search Engine Roundtable and originaly reported over at ThreadWatch…A screen capture taken over at Glenn.Ca of Google pushing the tabs (Web Images Groups News Froogle Local) to the side bar menu. In my opinion, it takes up too much screen real estate.
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December 19th, 2005 at 3:49 pm
I can predict what will happen. Google’s UI has always been regarded as clutter-free. UI gurus have praised it for being so clean. As time passes, they add more and more features. So they are adding more and more links everywhere.
See what google looked like before:
http://web.archive.org/web/19991012140308/http://google.com/
Look at it now.
Before long, their pages will be just like ours
December 19th, 2005 at 4:38 pm
I hope this one will never leave the test area. I do not like it at all and it would be annoying to always have that side bar when searching … but for Google it would raise the use of the other search functions for sure (images, etc.).