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Google Redux: A Greasemonkey facelift for Google
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January designer Andy Rutledge took on the task of redesigning
Google's home page to make it, how shall we say, more designed. Of course, Rutledge doesn't work for Google and
we'll never see it on Google.com--or will we? Tristan Dunn has put together a Greasemonkey script that replaces Google's home page with Rutledge's
pretty "Google Redux" every time you visit. It's pretty weird loading up Google's home page to find something
completely new and fresh. The script even checks for Google's fancy holiday logos.
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tismatron said 5:40PM on 3-15-2006
Nop, hate it, its exactly why i hate msn, that horrible blue. I love the clean minimalistic look to google, no ads, just one image andthe rest text, it means fast loading times, which is what i want from a serach engine, i dont need to look for stuff i dont want, for example adverts... google doesnt need changing./..
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ATX said 12:36PM on 3-18-2006
Went to Rutledge's site to get a better look at his rendition and get the insights behind. To my mind, all off the mark. I've always had the greatest admiration for Google's layout, their minimalist aesthetics. Perfect. What's more, if you read over Rutledge's critique, he's somewhat condescending over Google's design, pretty convinced of his own view on the matter, and the reasons he presents are all pretty much off-target, showing nothing more than his opinions rather than a better approach to the ergonomics of the layout, or even the aesthetic element. And his design did nothing for me whatsoever--in fact I found it pretty ugly. His placement of functions didn't make any improvements. He'd better rethink this one. The score thus far: Google--1, Rutledge--0.
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