Google Redesigns Search Page, Takes Sidebar To The Top

Internet giant Google brought its revamped search page to desktops, giving search results more room by stripping off the sidebar to the top of the screen.

The new design was introduced on tablets last year and then moved to mobile phones a few weeks ago.

"You'll notice a new simpler, cleaner design on the search results page," Jon Wiley, Lead Designer for Google Search wrote in the official blog post. "With the new design, there's a bit more breathing room, and more focus on the answers you're looking for, whether from web results or from a feature like the Knowledge Graph."

Google in its renewed design has moved the navigational tools from the upper left of the page to the top of the page providing a more streamlined search page. The new navigation bar that lies horizontally beneath the search field includes Google's various search verticals including Images, News, Maps, Shopping and "More," under which many more like Books, places and other sections are hidden.

It also provides a search tool that enables the users to filter their searches by result type or time frame. It further gives other filtering options for search results such as "sites with images, relates searches, visited pages, not yet visited, dictionary, reading level, nearby, translated foreign pages and verbatim."

Although some search results does not display any advertisements with them, CNET reported that Google's advertisement placements will remain the same after the testing phase. The new layout design will be available for the U.S. users initially before releasing it out to globally.

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