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RE: Googles "fade-in" effect
I don't want to go into iGoogle or specific themes, because those are irrelevant because those are exactly those 'personal' settings. In all my posts I was talking with the majority of people/average users in mind, not my own preferences (the language tools is just an example of the other links you can use), or the preferences of some die-hard PC-literate people (which aren't the majority of people).
Hence my previous question if they would actually track the fade-in effect vs. clicking on the other links. Because I would be realy surprised if it turns out that most people indeed do not move their mouse (even if they just want to search). I don't believe it and never will until I see such figures...
I know they researched it. But I think it is the least worse (luckally, as it could be even worse) of their bad decision. But that doesn't make it a good thing imho.
The thing is not so much that they tested several versions of it and picked this one (the least worse), but that they made the decision to change it into 'something' in the first place. I'm 100% certain "no change" wasn't one of those 10 tested versions!
Another thing I'm very surprised about actually, is that there is no way to disable the effect in the 'options'. It woul be dead easy to implement it in a cookie with the rest of the options for them.
Anyways, it's there and we now need to live with it (or make a personalised page). It isn't a realy big deal though, but I still find it annoying eventhough I try to get used to it... Only time will tell I guess.
This post was edited on 12-13-2009 at 04:55 PM by CookieRevised.
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