The New Google Homepage Layout

In another incremental change, Google has changed the layout on the Google home page. The links above the search box connect to some of Google’s other databases. Their version of the Open Directory used to be there before it was demoted. Today, Groups and Froogle have been demoted and no longer are visible links on the home page. Video (with a NEW! tag) has replaced them. In a sense, Groups and Froogle are still available on the home page, but only via a click. The more >> link at the right now gives a pop-up menu of other choices for Froogle, Groups, Books, and "even more."

But a user must click the more >> link to see these choices pop up. The "even more" goes to other Google database. For academic researchers who are not on a campus where Google automatically displays a Scholar link, the one major absence from the new Google page remains Google Scholar.