[parallax7d]

Hey a search insider, cool.

I want to thank your department for the advance search sort on the left hand side, totally non-distracting and much easier to drill through than clicking the tiny advanced search link.

But please stop adding more distracting stuff to search. Like backgrounds, animated interactive logos, menus that fade into view only when you move your mouse, instant results flashing and distracting you constantly. A design like google.com circa 5 years ago seems to have been quite popular for all it's simplicity.

[nostrademons]

I worked on the left-nav and a bunch of the tools within it. It's nice to hear that somebody enjoys it.

It's interesting, though, how diverse opinions are on various features. I'm far more used to hearing "I hate you for putting a left nav on search. I want my screen real estate back!" And I get jealous of the guy who did the homepage fade and PacMan/Buckyball/colored-balls/Google-as-you-type doodles, because there've been generally positive user responses to those. Google Instant in general had an overwhelmingly positive user response.