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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

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 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. Barry's personal blog is named Cartoon Barry and he can be followed on Twitter here.