{"id":87270,"date":"2013-09-20T08:40:44","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T06:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=87270"},"modified":"2013-09-20T08:41:47","modified_gmt":"2013-09-20T06:41:47","slug":"new-google-home-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/87270-new-google-home-page.html","title":{"rendered":"New Google home page"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google started the roll-out of its redesigned home page Thursday in a move designed to standardize the way users interact with its services across smartphones, tablets and PCs.<\/p>\n<p>The revamp of the most popular page on the internet reduces the number of options users will see directly and requires them to click on a Google Plus tab, or an Apps tab to access many of the company&#8217;s services.<\/p>\n<p>The famous search box remains largely unchanged but Google did tweak the colours and shading of its logo.<\/p>\n<p>According to a blog posting by Google manager Eddie Kessler, the redesigned page will be rolled out to all Google users around the world in the next few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Getting around Google should be seamless, and once you&#8217;re inside an app, you don&#8217;t want any distractions,&#8221; Kessler said. &#8220;So we&#8217;re introducing an updated Google bar that streamlines your experience across products and devices.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More Internet news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/86551-biggest-social-networks-in-south-africa-2.html\">Biggest social networks in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/86429-net-neutrality-battle-heats-up-in-us.html\">Net neutrality battle heats up in US<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/86453-new-incredible-connection-online-store-launched.html\">New Incredible Connection online store launched<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google started the roll-out of its redesigned home page Thursday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":86221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[36,167],"class_list":["post-87270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87270"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}