Google Tests a New Interface
Another day, another Google experiment. This time, Google tests a new search button inspired by Bing and removes the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button from the homepage, probably because it's no longer useful. Google Instant makes the search button unnecessary most of the time, so Google could remove it altogether. It's interesting that the new design emphasizes the search button instead of making it less prominent.
Google's experiment highlights the header of the search results pages and uses gray/red icons and labels in the vertical navigation menu. Another change is that the "cached" and "similar" links are placed in the Instant Preview box, so they're more difficult to find.
All the icons and images for this experiment are available in a sprite.
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Another day, another Google experiment. This time, Google tests a brand new search button inspired by Bing and removes the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button from the homepage, most likely because it's no longer useful. Google Instant makes the search button unnecessary most of the time, so Google could remove it altogether. It's fascinating that the brand new design emphasizes the search button instead of making it less prominent.
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ReplyDeleteGoogle frequently tests new interfaces, layouts, colors and placements of icons, buttons and links. But when they do these tests, it seems a very limited number of people see it. But over the weekend, Google did a search results interface test and it seemed to me that Google let it lose to a larger set of testers then they have done so before. Or maybe the test was so outrageous that testers actually cared enough to complain?
I have screen shots from a bunch of readers but I'll share only three. The credit for these images goes to @HilzFuld, BlogsNDA and a WEbmasterWorld thread:
GoogleのSERPのUIテスト。サイトリスト間に点線の罫線入るのいいね。RT @seo_theory SE Roundtable: Google Tests New Search Results Design: Google f... http://bit.ly/jzZd7N
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