Weird Google Glitch Shows Vertical Text Across Search Results Page

Jun 30, 2015 - 7:48 am 7 by
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Sometimes people spot the weirdest things with Google. The latest was spotted by Eliyahu Speiser and Andrew Stein and posted on Google+.

In short, Google is sometimes drawing text and characters vertically across the Google search results page. They told me they tested this on several machines, both with and without Hebrew fonts installed. I personally cannot replicate this myself but they shared these screen shots:

Google Vertical Text Lines

Google Vertical Text Line

I am pretty sure I've seen these issues before but it is always fun to see these weird Google layout issues.

Forum discussion at Google+.

 

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