Google Testing Highlighting Search Results On Mouse Over Event?

Oct 12, 2010 - 8:27 am 4 — by
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A WebmasterWorld thread has one SEO noticing that Google is testing a new search results user interface. The new interface tends to highlight the background of a single search results, in a light blue, when a mouse moves over that result.

Supposedly, it looks a lot like the Google page previews test, but without the magnifying glass and page preview option. So I suspect it looks like this (I mocked this up off the page preview screens):

google blue SERP highlights

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.

 

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