mediajunk

I've said it before, but they always go and do something to make me say it again: the guys at Google are great at search, but they suck at web design.

The original Google homepage was unharmed by design ineptitude because it was spartan -- to reduce the page download time. Certain deep pages added recently have looked bad, but the Google "designers" rarely tampered with the results page ... until now.

Google is experimenting with a new look that I don't like at all. Judge for yourself with the following bookmarklet, a hack created by Jesse Ruderman that makes a slight alteration the Google cookie on your machine, so that it displays the new skin:

toggle google look

Drag the above link to your bookmarks/favorites, where it will stick. Then visit google.com, and click on the bookmark.

To toggle off the new look, simply click the bookmark again.

Update:
A friend has pointed out that the Google homepage doesn't look so different. I should have mentioned that it's the results page that has changed (for the worse). Just do a search to see what I mean.