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jgpaiva:
As these days it looks like everything revolves around google, i decided to contribute too.
Here's GoogleX.
A google interface experiment, based on macOS's dock.

Apparently it didn't last much time (only about one day ;) ), and was forgotten ever since (it's quite old, dates to March 19 2005). But still, i think it looks good, and you guys (and gals :) ) might not know about it.

mouser:
nice, wonder why they got rid of it.. maybe just too hard to maintain..

JavaJones:
They probably got rid of it because, while it kind of looks nice, it's a lot slower for the average user (who doesn't use search 100 times a day, thereby getting familiar with the icons). It actually takes a fair amount of time for people to memorize icons. Reading text is extremely quick for most people so text links are a natural. Plus they're lower on bandwidth which for Google, getting millions and millions of daily page views, could be a huge deal.

- Oshyan

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