SillyDog701

[Ron Williams]

While there is not much to say about the picture in the link below, I think Microsoft probably saw the new google and called and pressured google to take it down


Google Image

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050223 Firefox/1.0.1

[beanboy89]

A little more to this story...
Google Labs had created "Google X" which was a "new" testing front page for Google with what appeared to be Mac OSX dock-like icons.
An entry from Google's development blog:

Today is an amazing day: A small idea - a fun late-night coding jaunt to help me learn Javascript & DHTML - has just launched on Google Labs. I never expected it to make it as far as it has when I wrote it a month ago, especially since my "real" job is working on Keyhole, where I'm having the time of my life taking our cool 3D mapping application and putting the power of Google behind it. It's fulfilling to have the opportunity to reach the audience we always dreamed of when we started Keyhole five years ago, and that by itself is absolute coolness.

And now there's Google X, which came about because I wanted a quick fun way to access all of Google's services. I gave it to a few friends in the company, who gave it to their friends, some posted it on their blogs, others sent it around on mailing lists, and it eventually made its way to Marissa Mayer, who liked it enough to say, when do you want to put it up on Labs? So after some spit and polish from some enthusiastic Googlers and the keen eye of the UI team, Google X is here. I hope all of you enjoy it - especially Mac users, who I'm sure will appreciate its lineage.

It appears that the page that "Google X" had existed on is now offline.

The requested URL was not found on this server.

No one is really certian why the page dosen't exist anymore, c|net news.com has an article which may have some insight on the issue.

Google's latest technology experiment paid tribute to Apple Computer, but the Mac OS X-themed version of the search king's Web site was taken down a day after its debut.

While the page on Google's server is no longer existent, a member of the NeoWin.net Forum posted a link to a mirrored version of the "Google X" site.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050217

[Antony]

thanks for the article and links to mirrored Google X, Billy.

Hmm... that guy managed to create magnification Dock-like effect (minus the Genie Effect).

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/125.5.6 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/125.12

[Ron Williams]

I found a better reproduction that has better magnification on the defcon forums try http://googlex.foxified.info/. The images and magnification are better.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2

[MarkJMK]

That does look nice....thanks for the link.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050408 Firefox/1.0.3