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Google Helping to Kill the Scourge of the Web: Intro Movies

By Scott Gilbertson June 12, 2008 Categories: Visual Design, Web Basics

GoogleGoogle is now offering searchers a way around one of the worst aspects of the web — Flash intro movies. All those websites still living in 1998 when Flash intro movies were, uh, still a really bad idea, even then, now have a “skip intro” link beside their Google search result link.

The link is a welcome addition to the Google search page, but we’re hoping for an even better outcome — now designers have a concrete reason to talk clients out of intro movies since anyone coming from Google can skip them anyway. We like to think perhaps this argument will cut down on the usability and sanity-challenge that is the intro movie.

This is the web people, not television.

If you think your intro movie is so great, put it on YouTube and we’ll find it there, but for the love of all things good, leave it off your website — we’re all going to skip it anyway.

[via Google Operating System]

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