Google Increases Search Box

Not the biggest piece of news to hit us this year but Google have reconfirmed that Search is the primary focus of the company by increasing the size of their Search box and the size of the text that you type in (which also helps from a usability perspective):

Google has always been first and foremost about search, and we’re committed to building and powering the best search on the web — now available through a supersized search box.

Just in case the likes of Bing and any other challengers to the throne have forgetten that Google still ‘controls’ 70-80% of the search market in most countries.

You can see the various stages of growth of the Google homepage and how one of the most powerful homepage online has evolved.

By coincidence interesting post on the World of Technology earlier this week shows how some of the biggest websites around today started their life online – it does feel like it was all about getting an idea up into the online space and then building on it in a live environment.

Facebook when it launched in 2004

YouTube in 2005

And Yahoo! back in 1994