Google Testing New Search Layout
Posted at 7:40am EST on 01/21/2010
As we have seen Google test, test, and test again, with innovative and unique navigation systems, Google is at it again.
Huge thanks for tipster Jared for sending in these screenshots he was able to capture.
Here is what looks like a new potential layout for Google search.
The first screenshot is of normal search. Where you can choose the various search options directly on the left hand side, instead of going all the way to the top or using the dropdown on the top (which I already do find annoying.)
The second screenshot is of the news section. You can see all the latest news or use the normal search options which already exist today, just on the news tab.
The final screenshot is the “updates” screenshot, better known as “integrated Twitter updates search.”
This is the real kicker, I think. That Google is really going to push real-time Twitter updates into search, even more than it is right now. It’s still fairly vague, from what I know, of how Google is determining the authority on users and when or where their tweets should show up. Hopefully Google can clarify this in the future.
Scott Holdren
Jan 21st, 2010
Oh my aching scraper!
Jonathan Dingman
Jan 21st, 2010
hmm what?
Honey
Jan 30th, 2010
I guess I wouldn’t mind the change if they didn’t incorporate so much color. I think I’d prefer just a text link.
It will take some getting used to!
mobai
Feb 6th, 2010
oh.i like it~ :)
Ricardo Dirani
Feb 23rd, 2010
They seemed to have field tested it today. A couple of hours ago, it was looking like this,with the column to the left, like Bing. Now it’s back to how it was.
At first I couldn’t tell what was different, just that something was amiss. I tried to find in the settings something affecting the layout but there was nothing. Then I realized what it was.
Another difference is that it was listing many pages under the same domain, instead of one hit, a couple more after it indented to show it is under that, and a link to “more from xpto.com”.