Google Tests PDF & File Type Label In Search Results Snippets

Nov 9, 2017 - 8:19 am 3 by
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Google seems to be testing a file type label in the search results snippets. Sergio Redondo posted a screen shot on Twitter of him being shown a PDF label icon in the Google search results on a snippet. The label communicates to the searcher that clicking on that result will not take you to a web page but rather a PDF document.

Here is his screen shot:

Google Search Pdf Label Snippet

I personally cannot replicate this but Google is constantly conducting user interface tests and this is just one more of the many they conduct on a daily, hourly, minute by minute basis.

Personally, I like this one.

Forum discussion at Twitter.

 

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