Google is testing a new search layout that lets users decide if they would like to see longer text excerpts, dates, places and even images inside regular search pages.
You also have the option to limit Google search results to fresh pages only (like show pages created since last month) without using the "Advance Search Page".
To start with, users are presented with a "Search Options" link that brings up a list of relevant options in the right sidebar. All screenshots are more or less self-explanatory.
1. Show pages created in the past month. (also see - ego surfing with Google)
2. Show Search Snippets with Longer Text - this may also be a blessing for screen scrappers who make websites using content from Google Search pages.
3. Show Dates & Places in Search Results Snippets - If Google can recognize any content in the web page that looks like a date or a place, it will be show in the search pages while the regular content is shown in light color.
4. Show both Images & Text from Web Pages - This may a good option when search for images galleries on Google. You can do something in Google Image Search using the site: operator but here, the text snippets and images appear side by side.
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Reader Comments
Unfortunately i don’t see the new SERP interface while googling :(
Do u do something extra to bring in the new interface?
Written by debasys on 07.19.08
Plz maintain the quality of blog stop blogging madly about google….
Written by Sid on 07.19.08
With the internet full of all sorts of information necessary and unneccesary(age old information),new and relevant content takes some time to show up in top search results so I use advance search more and more these days…a good step by google.
Written by TechnoLaziness on 07.19.08
Tech Crunch reported that the interface is going to look more like Digg.
Ed: This is probably not related to that Digg experiment on Google.
Written by Prathik Rajendran on 07.19.08
Where is Google testing their new search layout, in China? Nothing new here in France, whether it be google.fr or google.com .
Written by Transcontinental on 07.20.08
This new interface is interesting. I can’t see it (Google Australia here). But you people do know you can search by date anyway if you click advanced search beside the Google button, right? I would love to try this new interface though. It would be a refreshing change and looks more helpful. Is there a query string that needs to be appended to the URL to get this to display or something?
- Dwayne Charrington.
Written by Dwayne Charrington on 07.20.08
hey sid.. hes so mad about google that he named his son Google .. u can’t help .. u have to bear it
Written by Sidder on 07.20.08
Most of the features are available in the advanced search section of google search. They will only display them on SERP.
Written by Raman Shukla on 07.20.08
Nothing also in Google Portugal or Spain, only the same old layout.
@Raman Shukla
We know that, but the new layout is not being displayed anyhow.
Written by fr on 07.21.08
“Freshness dating,” or using the creation date of a webpage to enhance the search experience, was first introduced by Gigablast earlier this year.
It’s similar to what Google does for blogs, but it works for the entire web.
Apparently Google liked the idea enough to work on their own version, based on the screenshot shown in item #1 above.
Gigablast uses patent-pending algorithms to estimate the actual date a webpage was created, published or modified (as opposed to when it was spidered, which is what the other major search engines currently use).
Sincerely,
Marcus
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Marcus Ruark
Gigablast, Inc.
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Written by Marcus Ruark on 07.21.08
seems like a rip off of gigablast.com’s search results page.
Written by steve austin on 07.21.08