"Changing things so much that users revolt or dropping services altogether seems to be an emerging pattern at Google. Our startup has managed to capitalize on this quite nicely though as we offer a new tab replacement extension like the old new tab, but better. You can try it out here: https://chrome.google.com/webs... Also, here's a blog post about it: http://www.arcticstartup.com/2..." - Oleg Podsechin