http://www.google.cn/hp?sp=china

Looks like Yahoo! homepage...

OMG ... when did Google become so .. messy .. Google China is going to far (in my view) .. we'll yet to see how this page works out.

What are most of the links on that page for?

I actually like it, more links, same clean effect.

hp = home page ?
google.cn/ig doesn't work there

pass your mouse over the links on the right, there are animations

Cool! (The animations, not the home page)

All of them:
http://www.google.cn/hp/f/smi5By9snFc/images/guge/animation.png

A nicer way to look at this page: (For the most of us :P)
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.cn%2Fhp%3Fsp%3Dchina&langpair=zh%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF8

BTW,
Take a look at this bizarre image:
http://www.google.cn/hp/f/cZLWPuUIUFQ/images/guge/tools.gif

I can't believe how many external links there are :-o

it's not my style, but remember that sites like this (with lots of links and ..stuff..) are really popular in asia

It wasn't the same look last week!
http://tech.163.com/07/1103/22/3SDKE077000915BF.html
More like Google Korea home page.

>> Take a look at this bizarre image:

David, they're just using CSS sprites. A lot of modern websites use this approach to reduce the number of HTTP requests.

Got it.
Thanks :)

Slightly off-topic, but Apple also use it on their navigation. I've never tried it yet.

http://images.apple.com/global/nav/images/globalnavbg.png

http://blogoscoped.com/forum/113845.html#id113890

I prefer this homepage than the new one.

And just to make this clear,
What's the difference between Google.cn and http://www.google.cn/hp?sp=china ?

Why did Google create this page? (after all, It's not a part of iGoogle)

How do Chinese users get to this URL? Google.cn itself still seems to show the old version, and also not offer a link to the alternative version... or is it geo-targeted?

Where did you find this Hexieshehui?

http://google.cn/ig(anythinghere) returns different error page than a "normal" 404 page like: http://google.cn/ieasd/

Chinese users might be randomly redirected to the new page, just like other testing pages. But I really don't like the idea of having so many links. Also, swithing between different types of results (web to image) isn't using AJAX, rather, you would be redirected.

   The auto-completion is really really nice though. :)

What is it ???
when Google will launch a similar animated one for India ..??
   Cheers,
Kuntal
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This is something that Chinese websites like sohu.com can learn from. Their is simply atrocious, and filled with so many irrelevant ads scattered like flies in a diner. This is what they should become, with better arranged ads (no pop-ups or pop-unders or floating balloons).

I think many people are thinking from a US point of view. Chinese ppl seem to like cool effects and shiny stuff.

I don't get it. Baidu is the leader in China and it has a very clean and Googley homepage (http://www.baidu.com). Why would Google's new homepage give better results?

^^^
Check out http://web.archive.org/web/20010308181756/http://www.baidu.com/
http://web.archive.org/web/20020331055621/http://www.baidu.com/
http://web.archive.org/web/20020727175527/http://baidu.com/ kinda googley

Looking at the wayback machine, it gets nicer and nicer as times go on...(BTW it blogoscopeds logo modelled after TWB Machines?

> it blogoscopeds logo modelled after TWB Machines?

That's coincidental, I guess the simpler the logo the more likely it looks like other logos... I won't claim that I've invented this style :) The font is Slack Casual btw.