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Rubén spotted a new interface design and posted a YouTube video of it in action. He posted the details on Google Blogoscoped Forums and his blog and describes how you can change your cookies to see this test.
The video shows how the left search filters and the middle search results have their own scroll bars. Here is the video:
Here is a static picture:
This is a pretty interesting test and I am not sure if it will last, but it does seem like Google is testing this internally.
Forum discussion at Google Blogoscoped Forums.
Update: This is now confirmed, Google told me "Google is always experimenting with new features."
Comments:
SEO Catalysts
08/19/2011 02:14 pm
I hope it should be last one and we will see the multiple scrolling search screen very early... :) -Seo
Andrea Moro
08/19/2011 03:21 pm
Are we sure this is not a template mistake?
Joe Amadon
08/19/2011 05:32 pm
This would seem to tie-in nicely with their infinite results page that they're testing.
Michael Roberts
08/19/2011 05:59 pm
It already does that somewhat similarly in Image search (which has "infinite scroll") so I'd believe they add this to regular search when/if infinite scroll gets added.
seo updates
08/22/2011 03:25 am
It's worthless. Nothing special with two new columns. Anyway thanks for sharing this wonderful article with us.
Mathuseo
08/23/2011 10:08 pm
This is now confirmed, Google told me "Google is always experimenting with new features." Nice statement from Google! :D