You know, I have reasons, too. Good reasons. Big reasons. Valid reasons. Reasonable reasons that you can't reason against. You're not the only reasoner, sir.

I know that feel, bro. Facebook, YouTube, Gizmodo, and some forums take up way too much of time. *Solidarity brofist*

And by "their own devices", you mean a phone, don't you? :P

Haha, I know the feeling of gibberish typing. Ever since I had to switch to an external keyboard, I've sometimes had the experience where the keyboard isn't perfectly aligned with the screen, and I start typing as though it is. I end up typing things like "jr;;o ept;d" instead of "hello, world" and then think, "WTF…

SOON DAMMIT. Chillax.

Kind of cool, I guess...I'm somewhere in between touch typing and hunt-and-peck. I've been told I type incredibly quickly, and often I don't need to look at the keyboard, but at the same time I don't use the "proper" home-row finger placement and I do sometimes quickly glance down to get a quick read of where my…

"Let's all live on a moon in June, watch the planetset and the two suns, too". Sounds like a hippie song to me. But it'd be really freaking cool!

I hope you do realize that the regular homepage has the bar at the top with the exact same options...it's kind of the main reason I go to the homepage anymore. For Translate and all. Not images, though, because I have a keyword set up for that, but still.

Haha, I use the address bar usually, but not in the way you'd expect. Most people type their queries into the bar and hit ENTER. I instead have a specific keyword set up so that I type "google" first and then the query. Like "google fight club rules" or something.

I very rarely take photos, but when I do, I want to share it with people, so I put it on Facebook.

Okay, good :) . I was about to say that someone who writes for a tech blog should know better than to judge a piece of technology by its marketing :P .

It..really wouldn't matter to me, honestly. Whether Google shows an ad for a Google product or an Apple product or a Spaghetti-O's product doesn't make much difference to me. An ad is an ad; they may as well advertise something THEY made.

If I had any money, I'd certainly donate to that cause.

Of course it was. Michael Crichton's work is amazing. He's one of my favorite authors (even if I always have trouble spelling his last name).

So you'd switch to Bing, which in addition to a search page also has unrelated "trending" searches, "trending" images, etc. on the bottom and little boxes that pop up unwanted information if your mouse hovers over them all over the page? That's not cleaner by any definition.

I can answer the proposed question by paraphrasing something my Machine Learning professor said (or, as he calls the course, Learning From Data):

So? A company is a company is a company. They both make tech products, and they both advertise their own products. It's nothing new. And as far as ads go, a streamlined image and one line of text is not obnoxious at all. Not to mention it goes away as soon as you type something and start actually using the search…