Marissa Meyer at the official Google blog:
So, today we're making a homepage change by adding a link to our privacy overview and policies. [...]
Larry and Sergey told me we could only add this to the homepage if we took a word away - keeping the "weight" of the homepage unchanged at 28. [...]
We think the easy access to our privacy information without any added homepage heft is a clear win for our users and an enhancement to your experience.
Link: What comes next in this series? 13, 33, 53, 61, 37, 28...
Bravo Google! But you missed something: you also added a hyphen! The hyphen weight is now a rather beefy three. My gosh, that's quite a lot of hyphens. I think you ought to go crunch the numbers again. Stay focused, people!
The author of this change regards her idea as very good and looks full of self confidence - "How smart I am". To me her "invention" is the same kind of invention that any website administrator does every day. But just because its at Google you have to make a blog record about it with thousands of links to it.
Posted by: Valentas Kurauskas | Saturday, July 05, 2008 at 01:15 AM