Nuked Google added tiny favicon icons to its search results this week. The company says it’s part of a plan to make clearer where information is coming from.
Google made the same tweak to the browsing experience on phones last year. The change was made by Google last year.
In my Chrome desktop browser, it feels like an aggravating, unnecessary change that does n’t actually help the user determine how good, bad, or reputable an actual search result might be. But do I need to see Best Buy’s logo or at & T’s blue circle when I search for’Samsung fold’.
The company tweeted that the change to desktop results was rolling out this week. But Google’s statement does n’t address how successful or irrelevant the favicons might have been for mobile users.
Google’s new search page and minimalist results were an extremely welcome change when it first launched. The new results make Google’s search results look a little cartoonish, compared to the detritus on other search home pages at the time.
In the past few months, Google changed its search algorithm so it does n’t see a search search search as a’bag of words’. In the months, it changed its results to prioritize reputable news sources, and even added augmented reality results to searches.
