Google testing image thumbnails in mobile search results again
Google brings back an old test, showing images in the mobile web search results. What do you think of them?
Barry Schwartz on August 19, 2016 at 12:43 pm | Reading time: 1 minute
Google is testing showing image thumbnails in the mobile search results again. They did this back in December 2014, and we know Google is constantly testing user interfaces, so this should come as no surprise.
Dan Smullen shared a screen shot with us on Twitter showing this off. We can personally not replicate this, but here is that screen shot:
We have emailed Google for a comment about this, but we suspect it will be the line about Google constantly testing and experimenting with new features, layouts and designs.
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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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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.
Barry can be followed on X here and you can learn more about Barry Schwartz over here or on his personal site.