Google’s latest user-hostile design change makes ads and search results look identical

Google’s latest user-hostile design change makes ads and search results look identical

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https://techcrunch.com/2020/01/23/squint-and-youll-click-it/

Did you notice a recent change to how Google search results are displayed on the desktop?

I noticed something last week — thinking there must be some kind of weird bug messing up the browser’s page rendering because suddenly everything looked similar: A homogenous sea of blue text links and favicons that, on such a large expanse of screen, come across as one block of background noise.

Google’s latest user-hostile design change makes ads and search results look identical

Jan 23, 2020, 11:28am UTC
https://techcrunch.com/2020/01/23/squint-and-youll-click-it/ > Did you notice a recent change to how Google search results are displayed on the desktop? > I noticed something last week — thinking there must be some kind of weird bug messing up the browser’s page rendering because suddenly everything looked similar: A homogenous sea of blue text links and favicons that, on such a large expanse of screen, come across as one block of background noise.