Google Is Testing New 'Search' Button And Colorful Icon The Web Version

At the beginning of this year, Google started a test on Material Theme icons on its desktop version covering News, Images, Maps, and other search filters. The latest test, as known recently, is quite lesser to important with the addition of a new button for accessing Google “Search” function.  

This change is all about focusing on minoring the design of the search tool on the homepage (and on the result page’s top). The left corner of the bar is set to have a magnifying Google icon of the red, green, blue and yellow color. It is supposed to endorse the newly introduced voice search icon on the right-hand side of the bar.

On SERP (standing for the search engine results page) at the right corner, the new button of “Search” is seen to take place of the previous blue magnifying glass. The new colorful alternative stays persisted on the left and make the thing look like the same when viewing on different tabs.

Indeed, the newborn button for Google Search is just a small bullet on the A/B test on a minoring scale we saw today on the web and mobile device. After about a dozen searches, the new design switched to the previous one. For a service that is as important as the Search engine, Google often carries out lots of tests before it officially releases a final design on a large scale. 

Somehow, the change might and possibly will answer our question on how an explicitly designated button can be helpful for user’s navigation. However, the odd addition of a magnifying glass in the left is making non-sense and now unable to be clicked. Nevertheless, the latest A/B test does not make any move in placing more material theme icons which are, somehow, more helpful to the user in recognizing that the wide-range of search categories are now available.