Google Tests Adding Icons Back To The Search Bar Filters

Mar 29, 2019 - 7:59 am 15 by
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Google is testing showing icons in the search bar filters next to the all, news, maps, images, shopping and other buttons. This takes them back to a user interface they had in 2011, which they shortly dropped a year or so later.

Here is a screen shot from Joe Youngblood on Twitter of the design test, which I cannot replicate:

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Here is what I see:

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Joe is not the only one seeing this test, here are others on Twitter:

Do you see this as well? I tried numerous browsers and operating systems, I cannot replicate this.

Forum discussion at Twitter.

 

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