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O.P. Googles "fade-in" effect
Does anyone know how long this has been there? cus i only discovered it today :P

If your  not sure what im talking about, go to www.google.com (keeping your mouse near the address bar and not on the actual web page), then once google has loaded, point your mouse inside the google page, and additional links and such will appear.
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RE: Googles "fade-in" effect
Neowin reported that on Dec. 3.

http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/12/03/google-r...w-fade-in-homepage
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RE: Googles "fade-in" effect
i found out about it like a month or 2 ago... its quite old now... though back then it was rarely happening...
12-09-2009 12:24 PM
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RE: Googles "fade-in" effect
Yeah it's quite cool :P

I used a cookie "hack" to get it to work when it wasn't public, couple months ago like NanaFreak said. :)
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RE: Googles "fade-in" effect
Cool? It is annoying and completely useless imho....

It 'only' shows when you move the mouse... Well, in 99% of all cases you do move your mouse anyways. If it isn't moving to the search button, then it is moving because you moved your pointer away from your browser's address bar where you type google.com, or from the quick launch button or whatever and end up on the google page anyways.
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RE: Googles "fade-in" effect
1. Go to address bar (CTRL+L).
2. Type Google.com, press enter.
3. Type search query, press enter.

No mouse movement involved and you don't need to see the other unneeded links.

You can always disable it.
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RE: Googles "fade-in" effect
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Originally posted by Chris4
1. Go to address bar (CTRL+L).
2. Type Google.com, press enter.
3. Type search query, press enter.
If you are that efficient you probably should just search straight from the searchbar in your browser, or setup a search query to search straight from the URL bar, so you'll never see the Google homepage in the first place.
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RE: Googles "fade-in" effect
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1. Go to address bar (CTRL+L).
2. Type Google.com, press enter.
3. Type search query, press enter.

No mouse movement involved and you don't need to see the other unneeded links.
You will never convince me of its usage or effeciency.

What Menthix said, and for those who don't search directly from the address-bar:

When you're browsing the web and suddenly want to look something up, I bet you do use your mouse because you were scrolling a page before or whatever. I never saw anybody leaving there mouse when they suddenly wanted to go to Google. Everybody I know click somewhere (address-bar, or button or whatever) to go to google.com, and only then start to type the query, after moving the mouse cursor a bit to get it out of the way.

It is 100% useless and inefficient eyecandy.

PS: and it are exactly those 'unneeded' links I often use.

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You can always disable it.
That's BS imho... So I need to install something else to disable it?????? It should be the other way around...
(and who wants to disable JS?... I might as well switch to my text browser then)
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RE: RE: Googles "fade-in" effect
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Originally posted by Chris4
1. Go to address bar (CTRL+L).
2. Type Google.com, press enter.
3. Type search query, press enter.

No mouse movement involved and you don't need to see the other unneeded links.
You will never convince me of its usage or effeciency.

What Menthix said, and for those who don't search directly from the address-bar:

When you're browsing the web and suddenly want to look something up, I bet you do use your mouse because you were scrolling a page before or whatever. I never saw anybody leaving there mouse when they suddenly wanted to go to Google. Everybody I know click somewhere (address-bar, or button or whatever) to go to google.com, and only then start to type the query, after moving the mouse cursor a bit to get it out of the way.

It is 100% useless and inefficient eyecandy.

PS: and it are exactly those 'unneeded' links I often use.

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Originally posted by Chris4
You can always disable it.
That's BS imho... So I need to install something else to disable it?????? It should be the other way around...
(and who wants to disable JS?... I might as well switch to my text browser then)

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RE: Googles "fade-in" effect
I agree it's pointless, but it's not removing any functionality or anything, what's to complain about? Secondly, if you're that worried about it, why not save yourself the aggro/annoyance AND the time and just search from your address bar. Personally, I've not seen the Google homepage in ages.




Also note that pointless/useless is the wrong word, there is likely a fair few reasons Google made the change, which should be obvious.

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