Google begins rolling out a new desktop search user interface

By Barry Schwartz

Published: December 6, 2016 at 4:11 pm

Google has confirmed with Search Engine Land that they have begun rolling out a new design and look for their desktop search results page. The new design has a more boxy look resembling a mobile user interface.

I believe the official rollout began yesterday, but I spotted tests of this new design a few weeks ago.

Here is a screen shot of the new design:

It is unclear how long this new design will take to full roll out to all searchers, but I am personally able to replicate this across dozens of desktop browsers and operating systems.

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Barry Schwartz

Barry Schwartz is a technologist and a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics.

In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.

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