Google Testing New Design Without I’m Feeling Lucky Button

By Barry Schwartz

Published: June 18, 2011 at 10:56 pm

A reader emailed us a screen shot of the Google home page missing the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button as well as a new look for the inside search result pages.

Here are those screen shots.

Notice the home page missing the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button:

Google Not Feeling Lucky

The next screen shot shows a completely new look for the Google search results page. It has a colorless left side filter and a gray background behind the Google logo throughout the search box.

Google Test Design

Hat tip to R Edward @ rocknrolla.com.

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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.

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