Notice anything different about the Google search front page today? You should, because Google wants you to notice. They’ve added some fancy fading in of everything but the search box and logo, so that header and footer menu items only appear if you move your mouse while on the home page. Fancy, huh? I know Google’s a pretty big company but I wonder how much R&D time was taken from other projects to sort this little gem out. Is Google running out of ideas? I love this section of today’s announcement, which sums up the numerous variations they tried out on test groups: …the variant of the homepage we are Read more »