One of my pain points with Google is that the page is now bloated beyond belief. At one time, I'd hit the "home" button (G was my home page), the page would pop up instantly and I'd start typing my search.
Now, with "instant search", "google plus" and all that bloat, the page pops up, but when I start typing, nothing happens (as it's still loading the gobs of JavaScript); and then it'll miss the first few characters and then start pulling in random search results based on the last few characters I typed, while trying to load previews of pages. In all this confusion, the time taken for me to enter a search term and get results has gone from, say, 3-4 seconds earlier, to 7-10 seconds now. I know it doesn't sound much, but this is a company where Marissa used to count the individual characters of the homepage. Now that she's not in charge, the page has ballooned like Kirstie Alley.
Now, with "instant search", "google plus" and all that bloat, the page pops up, but when I start typing, nothing happens (as it's still loading the gobs of JavaScript); and then it'll miss the first few characters and then start pulling in random search results based on the last few characters I typed, while trying to load previews of pages. In all this confusion, the time taken for me to enter a search term and get results has gone from, say, 3-4 seconds earlier, to 7-10 seconds now. I know it doesn't sound much, but this is a company where Marissa used to count the individual characters of the homepage. Now that she's not in charge, the page has ballooned like Kirstie Alley.