Find All Your Google at Once With Simply Google

Chris McEvoy Makes Finding Google Services Easy

Is it confusing to navigate Google to find obscure services? Do you just want to see every Google item you're missing? Simply Google is a regularly maintained mashup of Google searches, downloads, and even official blogs. You can instantly find just about anything Google in English from one location. It even includes a few unofficial but related blogs and some comparative searches from competing search engines, like Yahoo! and MSN.

Chris McEvoy apparently felt that Google's simple interface was more difficult to use, because you had to click multiple times to find related Google services, like Google Maps or YouTube. Yahoo! offers a very crowded home page in comparison, but you are presented with most of your options from one page.

While that's somewhat mitigated with Google's new "Universal Search," it's still true to an extent. Google has been struggling with ways to present more options without making their home page too busy.

However, for every day Web searches, it's still easier and simpler to go straight to www.google.com and type your search in the box.

I think Simply Google is fantastic for finding new tools or exploring options you hadn't yet considered, but I wouldn't consider it to be easier to use than the standard Google home page for the average user. Simply Google is located on the Web at www.usabilityviews.com/simply_google.htm.