Google appears to be testing yet another redesign of its search engine, incorporating a new stylish colour scheme but also moving website links to a new position, underneath the title.
The redesign isn’t available to all users, but was spotted and shared on Twitter by David Pierce. It comes just days after the search giant announced it was to roll out new features for both mobile and desktop search users, unveiling new search shortcuts for its mobile pages, Voice Search within its Chrome browser and new Google Instant image search and Instant Pages.
The new layout stays close to Google’s current design but now sports a colourful search button and also Voice Search icons in the search box. The search giant has said that Voice Search “will take several days for Voice Search to be available to everyone” so the new design could accompany the gradual roll out of the new speech feature.
It’s worth noting that the Evernote search feature in the shot below isn’t part of the design, instead being part of the Clip to Evernote extension for Chrome.
More users will receive the update over the coming days, possibly weeks. Google is known for keeping its designs minimal and this redesign is no different, but with links now below the title of the website, we could be about to see a minor change to the way we use Google very soon.
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UPDATE: Google Operating System has uncovered the image of Google’s Finnish site below and notes that the new redesign also kills the I’m Feeling Lucky button. Be honest – when was the last time you used it? Still – that button was one feature that helped make Google stand out from other late-90s search engines when it first launched.
I actually sort of like it. Not sure I prefer it, but it looks good.
I, too, rather like it. It’s a lot more simple and better organised!
I saw this last night. All I really noticed was the voice search icon in the search bar, and I made some noises to see if the mic would pick me up and then I quit the browser. If I had known this was a new rollout I would have studied it more!
Google India search page changed its color. The blue became less brighter. Just noticed it. Anyone else out there with me?
On small correction: The “I’m feeling lucky” button is gone, but it has been “gone” for a long time. The “new” location (where it has been for some time now), is in the search result auto-suggest drop-down. Just hover your mouse over the right hand side of the dropdown list, and you’ll see it appear for individual results.
Source: I have the new redesign! :)
Though I admit that it has remained on the home page (google.com before any query) until now, so in that sense it is newly missing. But I don’t expect Google will ever completely remove the “I’m feeling lucky” option.
PS – I do use it when I’m feeling bored…
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That just makes a whole lot of sense dude. Wow.
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What’s the deal with the navigation on both the left and the top?
It was in the last ver., I thought it was useless then…
I believe the top nav consist of tools available, but apparently Google Images and Google Videos are one of their tool.
Left nav on the other hand is simply a filter option,.
“but with links now below the title of the website, we could be about to see a minor change to the way we use Google very soon”
Huh? When were the links ever above the title?
i don’t really know but it seems like no one is using “feeling lucky” button any more so they decide to take it out