Darren New wrote:

> They had an announcement describing this somewhere when they made the 
> change.

Yeah, I would imagine they did. But finding it might be difficult... 
(It's not like you can just Google "weird changes to Google search page".)

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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> (It's not like you can just Google "weird changes to Google search page".)

Did you try it?

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>> (It's not like you can just Google "weird changes to Google search 
>> page".)
> 
> Did you try it?

No. Let me go try it now...

...yes, as I expected, it returns nothing of use.



However, performing a manual search of the Official Google Blog (i.e., 
scrolling through the page until you see anything relevant-looking) 
gives me this:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/google-design-turned-up-notch.html
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/spring-metamorphosis-googles-new-look.html

That covers the update that happened in the last few days. After another 
15 minutes or so of manual searching, I found this:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/now-you-see-it-now-you-dont.html

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Orchid XP v8 wrote:

> However, performing a manual search of the Official Google Blog (i.e., 
> scrolling through the page until you see anything relevant-looking) 
> gives me this:
> 
> http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/google-design-turned-up-notch.html
> http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/spring-metamorphosis-googles-new-look.html 
> 
> 
> That covers the update that happened in the last few days. After another 
> 15 minutes or so of manual searching, I found this:
> 
> http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/now-you-see-it-now-you-dont.html

Apparently there's a kind of history page:

http://www.google.com/corporate/timeline/

I also found the page for the previous change - when they made the 
search bar bigger:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/now-s-u-p-e-r-sized.html

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Invisible escreveu:
> In the last day or so, the Google logo seems to have changed [quite 
> apart from the almost daily guest logos], and the search box has got 
> larger. I wonder why?

you only *noticed* it the last day or so, but it's been there for quite 
a while already (months).  At least the big official one rather than one 
of the "nationalized" versions for each country...

I thought the change was merely cosmetic but now that you brought it to 
attention, I also notice a virtual keyboard for security freaks next to 
the search entry.  Can't be bad...

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>> In fact, reading further, it seems they have several blogs - none of 
>> which are related to what I'm looking at...
> 
> You're not talking about this are you?
> http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/spring-metamorphosis-googles-new-look.html 

Yes, I eventually found that and several other related posts, by manual 
searching (i.e., using my eyeballs to inspect every blog post for the 
past X weeks).

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> I was looking at some slides from a presentation about testing and 
> developer productivity. One slide was a photograph of an actual whiteboard 
> at Google HQ, listing the things that had reduced productivity on a 
> particular day:

Sounds an interesting task, I should suggest people here do that.  But one 
of the problems here I see is that a lot of people count the "unproductive" 
work as productive.  For example if they spend a day trying to fix a problem 
with an incorrectly designed thing, they count that as a good productive 
day's work.  They don't realise their job is to design things correctly, and 
not to design things incorrectly and then fix them.

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scott wrote:

> Sounds an interesting task, I should suggest people here do that.  But 
> one of the problems here I see is that a lot of people count the 
> "unproductive" work as productive.

Heh, gotta love that.

> For example if they spend a day 
> trying to fix a problem with an incorrectly designed thing, they count 
> that as a good productive day's work.  They don't realise their job is 
> to design things correctly, and not to design things incorrectly and 
> then fix them.

Yeah, that *does* sound like poor engineering practise...

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> Yeah, that *does* sound like poor engineering practise...

Other favourites are spending a day designing something when someone else 
has already done it, designing something from scratch because you don't know 
how to use the software well enough to modify and existing design, or 
designing something when you know the spec isn't fixed, then when the spec 
is fixed saying you don't have enough time to change the design...  It's all 
fun and games here :-)

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scott wrote:

> Other favourites are spending a day designing something when someone 
> else has already done it

Sounds like either poor communication, or somebody with too much time on 
their hands.

> designing something from scratch because you 
> don't know how to use the software well enough to modify an existing 
> design

That's the kind of thing I'd do.

> or designing something when you know the spec isn't fixed, then 
> when the spec is fixed saying you don't have enough time to change the 
> design...

I suppose some people might argue that's a necessary evil when the 
customer can't make up their mind what they want and yet demand that it 
arrives on time. But I don't know.

> It's all fun and games here :-)

And I thought it was only my screwy company that does stuff like this...

Ooo, how about this one: Designing something when you have no spec at 
all, and then writing a spec to match the thing you just designed. You 
guys ever do that one?

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