Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'user interface'

Google Testing Snippet Size Controls in Search Results

A WebmasterWorld thread reports Google is testing giving the users the ability to set the size of the search results snippets. Google is showing at the upper left of the search results page "Web: Result details: S M L" The...

Some Yahoo Users Noticing New Home Page Design

About a week ago we reported about the news that Yahoo is testing a new home page design. Since then, we have really not heard any chatter about people actually seeing the design in place. I personally see the old...

Yahoo Begins to Indent Search Results

I am 99.999% sure this is a new user interface for Yahoo Search. In the past, Yahoo never ever indented search results. In fact, in the past I thought they did do indenting and then stopped, but Yahoo told me...

Yahoo! Search Tries Purple Header

Earlier this week, we reported that Yahoo was experimenting with a blue header for their search interface. I just did a search at Yahoo and I see a purple header being tested. Here is a screen capture: Clicking on the...

More Signs of Google Grouping Search Results by Category

Imagine the Google search results grouped by category. Let's say we do a search for DVD players and up comes two results per category. The categories include: Comparison Shopping Reviews Stores References Forums Blogs News Manufacturers That is exactly what...

3rd Google Experiment with Side Bar Navigation

WebmasterWorld & DigitalPoint Forums reports Google's third attempt at testing a side bar navigational user interface on the Google web search results page. Here is a screen capture taken from here. This user interface is similar to the first tabbed...

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