Initial page is garbage. They should have used the same page as all the other pages. Also, that building under the top left made me miss the links across the top for a little while.
The pagination is standard and poor. Somehow google has managed to convince everyone that bouncy-bottom-only pagination is a good idea. it isn't. Top AND Bottom, please. Also, there are at least 1000 pages for my search, but I get the option of 4 pages. 8 if I am in the middle somewhere. I've got room for at least 30 page buttons. The no-search landing pages for all the sections are cluttered and hard to understand. I'd avoid them completely. When I change search terms after drilling down to software based on polygon, to something slightly different, I lose my drill down. Additionally, the second step on the image search can be easily taken over and is taken over. I would have much rather seen a full size photo, rather than the page the image I clicked on was on. Then given the chance to visit the page. By loading it in the frame, I can't use this system without the page getting overtaken by sites like... wait for it.... myspace. All that said. There is positive stuff here. I like that the image search takes advantage of my larger monitor. I like that it knows where I live and provides related data. (like maps to local taco bells when I typed taco in the web search) There is a nifty discoverable extra-info doodad on the web search that doesn't seem to offer much information right now, but I assume will have more and more as time goes on. It has potential. I'm also digging the related search items. Even though a search for 'cone' eventually got me to 'pentagon' which seems related but the images are not. One has street cones the other photos of the pentagon. Also, they haven't forsaken the gold of the web, porn. Everything here was clearly designed with this in mind. These tools would work well for this purpose. The photo search seems to be an endless scroll. This is fantastic. I only wish the other searches were also. I don't quite understand why they aren't. In the video search, hovering over a video result plays a small amount of the movie clip. I like this. It also waits a short time before playing. Also good. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=42625 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
