{"id":562,"date":"2009-09-18T15:17:24","date_gmt":"2009-09-18T22:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deathgleaner.wordpress.com\/?p=562"},"modified":"2014-01-31T14:16:39","modified_gmt":"2014-01-31T22:16:39","slug":"google-search-gets-wider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/g-liu.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/google-search-gets-wider\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Search gets\u00a0wider"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Google<\/a>A while ago, Google decided to make it’s search box wider. I found out through a tweet from Mashable<\/a> (here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

I’m not sure how I like the widened search box. All of a sudden, Google’s “minimalistic” search page has gotten a lot more disproportionate. The Google logo looked much better the way it was before with a smaller text entry area and smaller buttons. However, it emphasizes on the fact that the Search is Google’s main function.<\/p>\n

On Mashable.com<\/a>, there was a blog post about it, which is reblogged here.<\/p>\n

This post first appeared on Mashable.com<\/a> under the title Google Goes Looooooooonger, Supersizes Its Search Box<\/a>. It was written on September 9th, 2009 by Barb Dybwad<\/a>, and has been edited by Deathgleaner for publication on this blog.<\/em><\/p>\n

What\u2019s better than a search box with two buttons<\/a>? A bigger<\/em> search box with two buttons, says Google.<\/p>\n

Today the search giant implemented and announced<\/a> a subtle but noticeable change to the size of the search text field on the Google home page: it\u2019s bigger. It also features a larger font size as you type in the field, with correspondingly larger text for Google Suggest results below (that are occasionally good for a laugh<\/a>).<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

The company says the reason behind the change is to remind us that Google\u2019s focus is on search. That\u2019s a relief, because with that smaller text box in place before, we just weren\u2019t sure.<\/p>\n

The change is interesting in light of Google\u2019s recent patent on its minimalist homepage interface<\/a>\u2026 that the company is now changing. Of course, it\u2019s not the first time Google has tweaked the homepage, and if you\u2019re interested, here\u2019s a slideshow timeline<\/a> showing off the various changes through the years.<\/p>\n

What do you think: does a larger textbox make the search engine more \u201cfun to use\u201d? Or if we hadn\u2019t told you, would you even have noticed?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A while ago, Google decided to make it’s search box wider. I found out through a tweet from Mashable (here.) I’m not sure how I like the widened search box. All of a sudden, Google’s “minimalistic” search page has gotten a lot more disproportionate. The Google logo looked much better the way it was before with a smaller text entry …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[97,25],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Zt3y-94","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/g-liu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/g-liu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/g-liu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g-liu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g-liu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/g-liu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4198,"href":"https:\/\/g-liu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions\/4198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/g-liu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g-liu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g-liu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}