Just the other day, I logged on to a common computer and did a quick Google search from IE and was greeted with a new Google!
I've been unable to replicate the new design, but it was definitely there and was definitely much better.
The Google logo has been rendered in slightly cooler colours with less gloss to the letters. More importantly, the search page has a new options pane along the left hand side. It now allows you to choose the source of results from the usuals like Web, Images, Video and News. Also, you can now search Discussions and Social Updates specificially from an easy to use bar along the left hand side which has now taken over some of the old Google options as well as adding some new ones.
You can now further tighten your search, such as choosing just Forums or Q&A's within the Discussions banner, or sorting by date posted instead of relevance. You can also (unconfirmed) still access all the usual search options (including Wonder Wheel and Timeline) with any search. More importantly, you can now also include Page Preview thumbnails beside results so you can see what the target page looks like before you choose it. The general page is also cleaner, smoother and easier to use.
Now, I don't know how I found it, but it could be the latest iteration of the refresh that started with the Google Caffeine engine upgrade. No guarantees, but it could be coming.
We are back!
12 years ago
2 comments:
Sounds neat.
Google has been known to test their new designs by serving the new page some of the time, and the regular page the rest of the time, completely at random. They do it for a while, quietly taking stats of time spent on the page, proportion of people that enter a search query, or click a link, quit their bowser, etc.
If the testing goes well, they'll make it permanent and officially announce the changes.
Mini-me,
Great Guess - what do you know - they updated it.
Hey does this blog get more traffic than http://taggedblog.blogspot.com?
Hope so.
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