Comments on: Bush Speech Word Frequency http://www.erik-rasmussen.com/blog/2007/01/30/bush-speech-word-frequency/ Thoughts and photos from an American living in Spain. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 11:21:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: erik http://www.erik-rasmussen.com/blog/2007/01/30/bush-speech-word-frequency/#comment-349 erik Tue, 30 Jan 2007 09:42:54 +0000 http://www.erik-rasmussen.com/blog/2007/01/30/bush-speech-word-frequency/#comment-349 Sure. One word: simplicity. People don't like change. The google homepage and results pages are as straight-forward as they can possibly be. Even the ads are unintrusive. I mean look at all the crap on <a href="http://www.yahoo.com/" rel="nofollow">yahoo.com</a> or <a href="http://www.msn.com/" rel="nofollow">msn.com</a>. You have to look around for a few seconds to even find the search box! It's no wonder people choose google for searching. Also, this NYT page I linked to required that you load some sort of flash file. The proper way to show internet search results is with straight, fast, backward compatible HTML. I just thought it was a fresh, new, outside-the-box kind of interface that was worth a blog entry. Sure. One word: simplicity.

People don’t like change. The google homepage and results pages are as straight-forward as they can possibly be. Even the ads are unintrusive. I mean look at all the crap on yahoo.com or msn.com. You have to look around for a few seconds to even find the search box! It’s no wonder people choose google for searching.

Also, this NYT page I linked to required that you load some sort of flash file. The proper way to show internet search results is with straight, fast, backward compatible HTML.

I just thought it was a fresh, new, outside-the-box kind of interface that was worth a blog entry.

]]> By: Uncle Steve http://www.erik-rasmussen.com/blog/2007/01/30/bush-speech-word-frequency/#comment-348 Uncle Steve Tue, 30 Jan 2007 09:30:19 +0000 http://www.erik-rasmussen.com/blog/2007/01/30/bush-speech-word-frequency/#comment-348 Hmmmm, looks like Google should go buy the NY Times and use their superior search UI, instead of doing the million other non-Internet-search-things that Google is persuing... Very cool UI. Any idea why Google's has gone virtually unchanged since its launch many (Internet) lifetimes ago? Hmmmm, looks like Google should go buy the NY Times and use their superior search UI, instead of doing the million other non-Internet-search-things that Google is persuing…

Very cool UI. Any idea why Google’s has gone virtually unchanged since its launch many (Internet) lifetimes ago?

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