Google Tests Vertical Line Next To Search Results Snippet On Hover

Sep 11, 2019 - 8:36 am 0 by
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Google is testing a vertical bar or vertical line next to the search results snippets when you hover your mouse over the snippet. Mordy Oberstein said this was spotted by Shay Harel, the Founder/CEO of RankRanger.

Here is his screen shot:

Google Snippet Line Bar Hover

This seems familiar but I cannot find a story that I've written on this in my massive Google user interface changes list... I've seen similar things to this, but not this exactly.

This is a minor change but part of the 3,200 changes Google made in a year.

Here is the tweet:

Forum discussion at Twitter.

 

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