Valhalla Island

Big.com is stupid. I was so excited when I first found it. The huge form was great when I first arrived, simply because I like big forms. I also like the simplicity of the Google homepage, so when that simplicity was coupled with a massive form field, I was excited.

My great first impressions instantly dried up the moment I actually searched for something. The homepage search field wasn’t the only thing big. The results are huge as well. Trying to read blocks of text at that size is impossible, you have to move your head backwards to be able to read it. Sitting half a metre away from a 19 inch monitor makes it harder again.

From the moment I saw the results I was dying to make the text smaller. I quickley noticed some text-size changing magnifying icons in the top corner and for a split second, breathed a sigh of relief until I found out I was already on the smallest size and my only option was to increase the size. Luckily Firefox allows me to manually resize website text. Even bringing it down to a respectable level with FF still left the results looking ugly. Results have much shorter descriptions because of the bigger size and this adds another level of annoying. Resizing with Firefox also resizes the search field which is the one part that I like to be big.

I don’t know why photomatt likes it so much.