How did the Google homepage change over time?
The Google homepage hasn’t changed a lot over the last roughly 10 years, even though small changes have been made… changes which do get noticed more quickly on uncluttered websites. Google started out looking like this in 1997 (if you think their current logo is as weird as it gets, you might want to reconsider!): In the year 2000, the Google homepage layout goes a bit ugly for a while. The tendency of many web designs is to get more crowded over time unless you actively work to prevent it – e.g. department X wants a link, department Y wants their animated badge, the boss of department Z wants the layout to be more “sexy,” and so on: In 2003 – ignore the Valentine’s logo in this specific screenshot – the Google homepage had tabs for web search, image search, news search and so on: The tabs later turned into plain links, and even later, these links moved to the top of the homepage to give us the Google.com design as we can see it today – with a search box that is still (and more than
The Google homepage hasn’t changed a lot over the last roughly 10 years, even though small changes have been made… changes which do get noticed more quickly on uncluttered websites. Google started out looking like this in 1997 (if you think their current logo is as weird as it gets, you might want to reconsider!): In the year 2000, the Google homepage layout goes a bit ugly for a while. The tendency of many web designs is to get more crowded over time unless you actively work to prevent it – e.g.
