Google Launches New Search Results Interface For Tablets

Google Search quietly launches a new interface for tablet users. The design and layout is noticeably different from the previous version.

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Google has launched a brand-new interface for searchers on tablet devices. The new interface is very different from the old tablet design, which was a combination of mobile and desktop design in one. This tablet view uses a form of card-like results, with a skinnier top bar navigation and a lot of white space on the left and right of the search results.

Here are screen shots from this morning:

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When local results come up, they capture the whole screen:

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Here is a screen shot from Alex Chitu, who was able to capture the interface before Google launched this morning’s Doodle.

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We have reached out to Google for a comment and have yet to hear back.

Postscript: A Google spokesperson told us, “this week we began rolling out a new tablet Search results page, bringing the best of Google Search to tablets.”


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Barry Schwartz
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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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