One white page. One textbox. One button. And the information of the world is at your feet. I do have one suggestion for Google though, call it my birthday present.
On September 7th Google celebrated its 10th birthday. Google was named by its two young Stanford University electrical engineering graduate students in misspelt homage to the word “googol” – an infinity-like number denoting 10 to the power of 100 (that’s the number one followed by a hundred zeros).
The simple design and usability of Google.com is one of the main reasons, why Google is so big today. Searching using Google is really simple and everybody loves simple.
Even the smallest company can rank high on Google searches, and who doesn’t trust a company that ranks high in Google?!
Besides simplicity, good search results and a consistent design through all of Google’s applications, Google Adwords is probably the smartest thing ever.
I’m used to ignoring banner ads, but text-based ads are harder to overlook, but this post isn’t about Google applications such as Google Chrome or Adwords.
It’s a present to Google.
Here is comes: Google - Please remove the “Do you feel lucky”-button from Google.com. This will make it even more simple and user friendly.
I know, you’ve probably never heard it before, but I don’t know anyone who uses that button.
Bonus question: Considering how much Google has achieved and how they’ve changed the internet for the last 10 years. How will Google shape the world for the next 10 years?
Happy birthday Google from The Beta News.
9 September, 2008
General Nonsense