Google To Add Sidebar to Search Results
While Google are just so dominant in the search space its still a little hard to understand why they are keen to slowly add more and more to their search result pages. Ive always thought with search its all about simplicity and great results, thats it!
Google’s vice president of search product and user experience has said that Google will soon begin testing a new permanent sidebar on its results page. It seems that users are happy with this direction that Google is taking, and it would certainly help us filter through the giant pile of data from Google.
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Very good idea, as long as we keep all current search features packed as it was with the usual option of having it or not, they’ll proceed with ease to permanent use.
This is going to literally add tens or hundreds of thousands of dollar to their bandwidth bill, due to the “improvements” to the page. Just FYI
Looks just like Bing. I guess they liked the Bing sidebar. Personally I don’t like it, but I guess it could be useful.
It makes sense that they do this. The links along the top already work in a similar fashion, but how many people actually use the “more” dropdown?
this bar is annoying as &#$@. I’ve been trying to remove it for about an hour now!