On: How Would You Redo the Google Interface? (2004)

[somehnreader]

Showing random surprises on the main page is related to what they are doing with the doodles, I think thats quite nice.

The physical Google button is a somewhat terrible idea, I think someone tried something similar a while back http://bit.ly/1rZkPdO

[_oofb → somehnreader]

> The physical Google button is a somewhat terrible idea, I think someone tried something similar a while back

The idea is the same as Google's Voice Search (and Siri).

http://www.google.com/insidesearch/features/voicesearch/