Google changes buttons and search bar size - was Weird UI bug

[Stridder44]

I'm not sure if anyone else is experiencing this, but Google's search bar/button are way bigger than they have been in the past. It just started happening yesterday (perhaps after installing iTunes 9?). Here's some shots to better understand what I mean.

Firefox seems to be doing the same thing. I'm guessing this is a problem on my end, but I have no idea what's going on or how to fix it.

 

[xUKHCx]

Google looks the way same to me. Not that I ever go directly to the google home page.

 

[Chrysaor]

Its not a bug, its a feature.

 

[Stridder44]

Google looks the way same to me. Not that I ever go directly to the google home page.

Right, it's just that mine looks way bigger for some reason (buttons, text, and search bar).

 

[macrem]

does "command" + "0" change anything?

 

[xUKHCx]

Right, it's just that mine looks way bigger for some reason (buttons, text, and search bar).

Sorry wasn't expressily clear, mine looks the same way as yours Firefox, Opera, Safari.

 

[Stridder44]

Sorry wasn't expressily clear, mine looks the same way as yours Firefox, Opera, Safari.

Ok, so maybe I'm not the only one who's noticing this.

By the way I'm running 10.6.1.

does "command" + "0" change anything?

Nope, it doesn't seem to do anything at all in fact.

 

[glenncal]

It's something that Google changed and should soon enough appear on all users' google pages (http://blogoscoped.com/forum/160098.html)

 

[Europe calling]

It's not a mac specific change. Today at the office i noticed it on PC's as well.

 

[Stridder44]

It's something that Google changed and should soon enough appear on all user's google's pages (http://blogoscoped.com/forum/160098.html)

Thank you! I thought I was going crazy.

Some of the text in the search box is annoyingly large though. I preferred the old way.

 

[D A]

I thought something was broken when I searched on Google a little earlier, damn Google don't change things unannounced!

 

[simonshek]

I thought something was broken when I searched on Google a little earlier, damn Google don't change things unannounced!

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/now-s-u-p-e-r-sized.html
Use google before yelling..

 

[TuffLuffJimmy]

The quickest google search will reveal that google changed their homepage.

 

[iPoTmon]

Yeah mine is also big. I was little scared.

 

[DrBroccoli]

The buttons can be restored via Glimmer Blocker, and probably the text size too, I just haven't figured that one out!

 

[Nermal]

I saw this too and immediately went into my font size options to try to figure out what the problem is. Not a good move on Google's part.

 

[user1234]

Google looks ugly in Safari

Hey!

Google went all ugly in Safari yesterday. It looks all linux. I have asked a few friends who doesn't have the problem. An image showing the problem is attached. The buttons are square and ugly, and the text is not what is should be. It only happens on google.com, not on other sites (like macrumors).

Anybody else have this problem? What could it be? I have deleted all google related cookies and cleared the cache.

 

[xUKHCx]

I've merged these two threads together, user1234 see above google has made the changes to their site.

 

[user1234]

I've merged these two threads together, user1234 see above google has made the changes to their site.

Oh! I thought I looked around for this before I posted. Sorry!

So Google changed this? Why make it ugly? weird. And also weird that my friends still see the old page. Good to know it's not my computer though. A few weird things have happened since I upgraded to Snow Leopard (Logic freezes, old mail being marked as new, system clock set back to 1:01, 01/01/2001).

Thanks.

 

[haiggy]

Google has slightly changed its look

Anyone else notice this?
Everything is HUGE on their site now... including the suggestions box. Do they think we all have terrible eye sight?

Do not like.

 

[jmann]

I like having the font a bit larger. I don't mind.

 

[Brendon Bauer]

I was thinking I accidentally made the text size larger but Command-0 wasn't working lol. Very odd indeed!

 

[Unspoken Demise]

I like having the font a bit larger. I don't mind.

+1 I thought I had changed my text size, but nope, it was Google. Sneaky Google. I like it. I dont mind.

 

[ergdegdeg]

I like it, too. Why make the font so small if there is not enough to fill the entire page anyway? The larger font is easier to read regardless of your eye-sight.

 

[haiggy]

I like it, too. Why make the font so small if there is not enough to fill the entire page anyway? The larger font is easier to read regardless of your eye-sight.

Fair enough, maybe it's the buttons I'm not digging lol
But yeah at first I thought I had changed something to do with the size but nope, it's default now!