Google’s New Layout: Love it or Hate It?

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Published: July 4, 2009

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Google also removed the page size indicator, which gives you a hint of how long the page might take to load. Reader Marek Foss sent us screenshots comparing the old and the new layout (below), which he feels looks more like Google AdSense than a page of Google search results. After much analysis of server logs, the company found it was because it took about twice as long to display the longer results list for the user, and speed matters. It does look a bit dodgy though and I was used to the old look but meh. As someone who doesn't run their browser's fullscreen (I make it more like a page width) I hate it when things are bumped up all the way against the window border. I don't like the fact that they no longer show the page size in kb. click here to read more

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