The Animated Google Homepage

Who would've thought a couple of years ago? With bells and whistles abound on high-traffic sites the world around, good old Google stayed true to the perfectly static search homepage. Remembering the adventures we had with simple one-liners shorter than your average tweets, an animated effect on the homepage would've been unheard of.

Official Google Blog: Now you see it, now you don't

The new update is small in terms of dynamism or flashiness, but that's what it must be - simple and effective. It's good to see simplicity doesn't have to exclude dynamism, even in the hardest core of simplicity. Very nice.