Matt thinks that Google has a wider search box now, but I am not quite sure since I use Firefox’s search bar. Can anyone confirm?
If they do I don’t think it’s a usability issue, but a way to add more tabs in the future without looking like they are crowding things up.
Looks the same as always to me, but I did some extra investigation. A comparison of today’s search box size to that of March 2003 shows them to be the same.
I do know that a few weeks ago they moved the placement of the Google logo. It is closer to the top of the page now…and farther away from the search box and links. That may give the impression that it is longer. Whitespace can play tricks on the eye.
They got rid of the “New” that was next to Local and it caused the search box to appear wider in relation to the text above.
the dead fruitfly on my monitor hasn’t moved.
In 2003 the search bar size was 256. Today, the search bar size is still 256.
All hail the internet archive.
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://google.com
I think we just found the only practical use for it.
Practical?
Looks the same to me both IE and FireFox.
Jeremy: I just noticed that it was! I keep it as my homepage and always a tab in firefox but I usually use the search bar thats in firefox.
Google search box wider or not, it’s not an issue. It’s searches are always W-I-D-E-R !! :)