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Google Gothic: the dark side of Google

Google  made his boom, everyone is almost using it and year by year the power of this new search engine goes beyond the network.
but that common white new page is somewhat boring sometimes.


And this not because appear simply too white for goths or because is bad, but due to the taste some of us have, looking the way of customizing what surrounds us.
This is already happening for Google and in the direction of this phenomenon the first (unofficial of course) Google's brother that shows up is named Gothicengine.com.

This  Google gothic has a dark style and offers nothing special out of a relaxing dark homepage in which the usual google results appear.
The dark home page shows the suggestive image of a dark moon with some bats, really simple stuff that doesn't pretend to be somehow cool or whatever.
There were some version of this search engine, we liked the first that was themed trough the well known castle in Transilvania: Bran's Castle, ancient home of the king of vampires, Dracula.


Google’s features seem to be the same even including the button "I'm Feeling Lucky" that somebody translated into a funny "I'm Feeling Sick". It seems to work like the original one.


The web site has a multilingual interface that allows to research in different languages always using Google’s algorithms and output style. But the most interesting thing is perhaps that the results are send from the nearest Google’s servers to your house and trough this occurs the same delays as the original.
So, is this the beginning of a trend or just another wisp of the web ?


Time will tell us the true, but in the meaning this dark goth version of Google, that is available also in Spanish, seems to be popular and has risen to a point of having a pretty good fan base against the actual competitors that show old graphics, full of advertising…definitely not in the flavour of the the pure simplicity of the people that chosen Google as search engine.


Last Updated ( Friday, 13 August 2010 21:08 )  
Author of this article: Andrea Pilati

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