I don't think there is anything that would stop a developer from making this a reality using all the apis and/or api hacks. It may be a good way to impress them enough to get a job at Google.

Hey, I kinda enjoyed this mock-up. Is that wrong? :)

haha, I didn't make it to annoy Googlers, Matt, so I'm glad you dig it. Really I just wanted to see what it'd look like to have most of the Google products in one easily-digestible page.

I'd use it.

except for the big honkin' ad, i like it.

Yep, that's why I left Yahoo for Google. Yahoo's so cluttered you can never find anything.

i would love a page like this for google...it doesn't have to be there official homepage, but it would be great if they had an option to make that our homepage.

great work!!!

I agree with Matt and bg, apart from the ad it would be cool for someone to put this together. I like the right hand box with your Mail/Blogs/Docs -- would be useful!

nice mock, maybe should put something like google in your language on it.

Is this photoshopped? Or did you code this? Is there a link? If not, can you send me the file you coded this in? I love it!

I think that it could be potentially powerful, but I would hope if google did do something like this, it was a happy medium between their current personalized start page and Yahoo!'s.

the only thing i want to say about the mockup is to change the title from yahoo to google :P

just kidding...it's a very nice mockup, and very yahoo-ish indeed

Hideous. No wonder I avoid Yahoo.

It is a very cool, clean site and like someone stated above it would work well as an additional page that could be called the "home page" but not necessarily the official page of www.google.com

The reason Google has the very simple search page is because that's what they're known for. It's been there for years and probably years to come. They have allowed people to make their personal home pages and maybe this is an option too, but I doubt it will replace the current home page of Google. Good work.

i have to admit when i first clicked on the link from digg I was just getting ready to say your stupid and i like the overall simple style of Google. but after seeing this mock up I am a little pissed at Google for not doing something like this. It looks great go get yourself a job at Google or something

I love it!

One nitpick: Where is orkut?!?!

It's worthwhile pointing out that, with Google's personalizable home page, and with all the stuff you can put in it, you can ALMOST make this.

A while ago I made myself a "regularly used links" homepage that looks something like this. Basically a "favorites/bookmarks" page, regularly updated (especially since it links to the projects I'm working on at work, which change often). I thought most techie people did this...

Great peace of work. Can this be used for personal use of Google products?

That is ofcourse, if you are willing to share this with all or few of us. Whether somebody want this as homepage or not. I would definitely recommend this to Google lovers & would love to use it myself. It can save a whole lot of time, if you are hard user of Google products.

Thank you for sharing this with us.

Ha ha while I do enjoy the quality of your work, the reason I go to Google is to avoid the cluttered look of sites like Yahoo. If Google adopted this, I would have to find another search engine.

Great job! Brought a smile to my face. Would be great if you tried it the other way around: Can Yahoo's links fit into a Google-simple page?

HAHA!! that looks nice!! google should totally follow yahoo

People are allways talking about how simple google is, and how chaotic Yahoo! is, but i would love a page like this!!!!

everything in one, is this what Google HomePage 2.0 will be?

looks...actually nice. there's a bit of features and clutter on there i wouldnt use, and my google homepage works for me now...nice mock up though!

I think it looks kinda a cool. It's a better look than the personalized homepage I use everyday.

You could call it "Yahoogle"

One question--

Why not just use the Google "Personalized Page"? It's similar, and can be customized as you desire. You could even use it as a homepage if you allow cookies.

There's a reason I began to prefer google to yahoo as a search engine about four years ago, and it was the simplistic and empty front page of google. I don't give a damn about all this extra crap. I don't want to see stuff i don't care about it; the internet is too full of "good ideas" like "you may be interested in this." More often than not, the answer is no. If you were interested, you would have gone there in the first place. Now let me search in peace!

And yes, I do use youtube, gmail, and google search, and I don't care to see them all on one cluttered page.

Google does do this.. or a limited form at least.
on the main google page you can choose to personalize this page... more or less it becomes a portal.. albiet limited but a home page none the less.
http://www.google.com/ig?hl=en

It seems like some of the users think this was a stab at yahoo and some admit that it seems like it can be useful.

It seems like a great mock-up. A page like this could be very useful. I would probably use it

Now, what if you built it so you can configure the individual components, yahoo's calendar, news from Digg, email from Gmail all with the same interface, with the same look-and-feel?

What do you think?
shuri

i honestly think that people just might not use it as much. I say this because one of the things that people like best about google is the simplicity of it! People that have never been on the internet either young or extremely old go to google and instantly know what to do where as they might get lost on something else. www.gotuit.com has a very simlar page that is just simply clean

You just forgot one thing on the mock-up: put "Beta" next to all the buttons. Oh and persumably the portal page itself would have a "Beta" next to it...right?

Yahoo homepage sucks azz - Google would not lower there standards to such a level - for obvious reasons this mocked-up page is still a Yahoo Themed Ad Factory - a massive advertisement and the add to "Get The Toolbar" - is this for Internet noobies or what? If someone wants a freaking toolbar they can search the net for one - I don't need web real estate wasted on self-promoting ads.

Doubt Google would use fixed content bars (Life, Featured, Sports) - one thing that I hate the most. Not all of give a hoot about all those content themes, so there should be a way to customize them.

For those that think thaat Yahoo's homepage is cluttered or what not...try

http://search.yahoo.com/

Here is the thing - I like this design. It is a cool insight on google's services except one thing. Why is there a YouTube video there? I know they own YouTube, but I find it more likely that they would have GoogleVideo on their page over YouTube. Just an idea.

Heh. Nice. :-)

...now if we could just get Ebay to make a Google-style homepage.

Somehow it looks better than the original Yahoo homepage..maybe its just google, maybe its good karma

It's cool.

I like the merger of different ui's - The Gmail/Google-Reader, Google Video interface - It's actually a bit annoying how un-standardized Yahoo interfaces are even amongst itself. I would like to see G-mail and G-reader were tabbed and within a usable interface on the homepage.

However, with the two videos, and two java interfaces two load - it violates one of the google prime directives about the homepage - speed. More and more research show that people respond to speed more than design.

Nicely done.

-rob.

I don't know about you, but I would personally LOVE to have something like this, Yahoo like or not. Despite that fact I hate Yahoo, I love this little mashup. I wish someone would create a portal or something and offer services for something like this.

Two words: Well done.

i thought they did...with google personalized homepage???

and, actually, i think google's idea is way cooler than this.

aaron

gross! don't encourage them! lol

I like this. But I would not like to see this replacing the traditional simple search page that Google has. However it could be used as an additional page for those who have always wanted to have a portal that gathers all the Google applications and provides news and other stuff.

I for one use Google as my standard search engine but as for my daily portal I always use Yahoo! because of all the features that it offers.

I can confidently say that if Google ever created something like this my days of using Yahoo! as my portal would be over.

what would be killer is if google added what is essentially your left-hand bar to their "Personalized Home Page". make it a module so people don't *have* to see it, but i bet money people will use it.

they need to accommodate people looking for their other services. ask.com has recently implemented this in a nice ajaxy sidebar called "Search Tools." very slick.

Great job...but most of it is already available as mentioned above through google personalize webpage.
I'd use it if it wasn't a heavy load.

I like it... I think Google will take at least a baby step in that direction by the end of 2007. The purists will scream, the rest of us will either like it immediately or grow to like it. Google will increase its penetration rates and page views / ad impressions / revenue / dominance. Just my 2 cents.

-chrisco
http://www.buzzpal.com

Meh,it isn't as bad as some but it's still too busy.

Good job!
Google can use this for http://mashup.google.com/

Pretty good design.It will be really good if thay do so.

Very cool, good job.

One note: I wish Google would drop their love affair with bold text. Their designers must get an additional share for every time they incorporate bold text into their apps.

I think it looks awesome, I'd really like something like that. If anybody makes something as good looking and workable as that already let me know.

I think some banner ads are to be added :)

I'm joining this discussion rather late. But from what I see the ideal situation would be a search application, the interface of which has the simplicity of Google Search and the comprehensiveness of a Yahoo portal or startpage. The good news is that I have developed an application with such a scalable visual directory/interface. If there are folks in Google and Yahoo who are interested in seeing a demonstration of this next generation visual directory or scalable portal, please let me know.

In the meantime,
best regards.

Rod.

Awwwful... Google still should remain simple.

Haha... interesting. At the same time, I think it should give the folks at Google an idea to start thinking of a platform listing all of its products in one, easy-to-use-and-access web page.

I think it would look more like this:
http://www.google.com/ig?hl=en

A little Google personal hack

http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/2492/googlehomecustomqg5.png

"More and more research show that people respond to speed more than design."

Sorry but throwing stuff into a bunch of arbitrary columns and adding some gradients and other gaudy rubbish is not "design".

Ha ha. ...

personally, I always have hard time to find Google's service >,

Really nice. If the right side buttons were smaller, I would use this

Really nice. If the right side buttons were smaller, I would use this. I agree withPixeluv, I wonder why google does not have a search option to search their services

when i look at this page i know why i never use yahoo !! and why my yahoo mail box is junk mail box!!!

Fantastic!!!

Nice idea and work, but I think that never be Google reality.

I would love this ;)

Sure, Google could make one of these -- but they shouldn't make it the default. The strength of Google's suite of services lies not in bundling, but in modularity.

Google would buy Netvibes instead of making something like that themselves.

It's not about right or wrong for you but for me. I like it. It would be nice for Google to offer the option.

This goes against everything Google is about., great functionality, displayed in a simple format. It's very simliar to Craigslist design. It is so simple that my grandmother could figure it out, and thats why these services are so powerful.

For the uber geek, i have no problem having this option available as a personalized homepage page, but i would be very dissapointed if this was the standard.

Cool, now how about a Google in the style of MSN/Live

Awesome work, coded or Photoshooped?

Amazing. I would love that page as my startpage. I am just not a fan of google's IG thing, design wise, and I think you made a great mock-up. Please let them hire you to do it...

I would love to see Google provide a page with all their products in one location. The Google "personalized" homepage is slow and unwieldy....perhaps if they were to take an approach that melds NetVibes (my current 'homepage') and the Yahoo front page with the ability to customize the layouts, etc.

Perhaps Google should buy Netvibes as mentioned earlier. :)

Needs pictures of hot, nubile female actresses. Only then will it be like Yahoo!

For the love of the Internet, don't do it. I Google various things all day long--if I had to wait for that crap to render each time, I'd have to turn off images *and* Flash.

What really sucks is these websites that are so full of Javascript, they barely function unless you've got a CPU hot enough to cook eggs. I suspect some engines are/will start doing some kind of creepy javascript key-logging for market research, which turns out to be really, really slow on older PC's. And no, I'm not going to upgrade my PC because of a few bloated HTML forms.

well you can make a page with similar functionality on the Google personal page http://www.google.com/ig.

Wow! I am going to echo many of the other people who have commented in that I would love to have this as my Google start page. Very nice work!

No designer my ass

Although there would be differences, many of the features of this mock-up could be accomplished with the Google Personalized Home Page and some custom Google Gadgets. I have made a few Google Gadgets for Google Personalized Home Page. So, if anyone would be interested in being able to accomplish something CLOSE to this mock-up by using the existing Google Personalized Home Page technology, let me know.

You may contact me using the "Submit Your Own" tab at http://www.stareclips.com . I apologize for not giving the email address directly, but I prefer to avoid spam.

oh... i really like it man... u did it very well

great work nice clean design aside from the dove ad i really like it.
I would love to hire you to redesign the front page of tixx.com, I will keep you busy going to all the concerts sports theater events you want. yes I am serious - Billy Tickets

I'd love Google even more if they did something like this ... for now - I'll stick to Yahoo! for my choice of Portal, though ;-)

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Google will never put advertisement in their main home page. This is against to their organization's culture.

I use Yahoo as I very quickly check whats happening in the world as I type in my search. I often find important or interesting stuff i would not have known about if I started my search on Googles single letterbox style layout. It also shows me I am online, and the page is not cached from earlier, also useful.

I actually thought it was real, but after seeing the url, i know it's not then, lol..

Anyhow, it's a good idea but let it be personal homepage rather than index of its 'www.google.com' page.

I think that's well cool - would love something like that for a Google homepage. Alot more interesting than the peronalised Google homepage.

Ack! My eyes! Way too much crap -- this is why I avoid Yahoo's seizure-inducing start page.

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It sucks!!! google interface it much better.

Very nice ^_^

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appreciate ur effort. i hope google doesnt do it though.

Totally makes sense - now, those of us on the verge of ADD might throw-up every time we launch it... and spend 45 minutes every morning with distractions while trying to get into our mail (it'd be like having Ask A Ninja as your start page... not good for productivity...;-)... but aside from that, it's perfect!

Q: Did you get the Google position?

Did Matt take you to lunch?

Nice work. Thanks for sharing.

And keep the Mashups happening!

best,
Mark Alan Effinger
http://www.thoughtoffice.com

Cool.....