Our day starts with offering prayers to the Google God (pun intended), Just as our systems powers up, the browser takes us to the Google homepage. And Voila! What we see today is either a dejavu or perhaps some browser UI settings at work. Well, not really, but what is it actually? Alright, here it is:

Google Search Box Prior to 9/9/09

Google Homepage and New Search Box as on 10/9/09

Just as you can easily see the difference, the search box has gone even bigger, bigger than the logo itself. And no, it doesn’t ends here, type something into the box and that is plus sized too!

At first we mistook it as a browser setting and started to fiddle with the CTRL+Scroll Wheel Movements to adjust it to solace, but somehow things remained unaltered. Then was the time for us to think that “It’s the time for change!”

Who else other than the Horse himself could clear it up? We heard it right from the Horses mouth:
Google’s Official Blog posts about the recent changes.

Google’s very own Marissa Mayer said:

“For us, search has always been our focus. And, starting today, you’ll notice on our homepage and on our search results pages, our search box is growing in size. Although this is a very simple idea and an even simpler change, we’re excited about it — because it symbolizes our focus on search and because it makes our clean, minimalist homepage even easier and more fun to use.”

And that’s not the first time Google has made such changes, History holds it all and you can check out the evolution right here:
Google’s Homepage Evolution

And since all these statements are quiet plausible, what happens when it comes to Image, Video Search?

Although the change is evident when we search the Web Results at google, but nothing is yet implemented at the Images and Videos page. Nor it has been to Map, News, or shopping either.

Old Format of Boxes and Text for Google Image Search

The video search page suffers from the same Old format:

Old Format of Search Box and Text for Google Video Search

Are they not a part of Search? Or may be they are just out of focus at the moment.  Enough said!

Just a mop up: If you’re reading this Google, fix it up! We are looking forward to the changes to show up on other channels too! Let the usability revolution begin and spread into the whole search world of Google!

Worth mentioning, we did not miss a chance to notice the special logo coming up yesterday, 9/09/09 at the special time of 09:09:09. Worth a glance:

Google's Doodle for 09/09/09

 A phenomenal doodle for a phenomenal event, Kudos!!

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