25 June 2014

Google Tests Site Info Cards for Mobile



Google Mobile Search experiments with adding the site info feature that shows information about sites from Wikipedia and the Open Directory. Google shows a three dot icon next to the snippet. Tap the icon and you can learn more about a site.









I used Chrome's mobile emulation feature and the cookie values from here to take these screenshots. For some reason, the experimental feature works only if you are not signed in to a Google account.



{ Thanks, Rubén. }

Huge Titles in Google Mobile Search



Google's mobile search interface has a new feature that makes titles bigger for search results that have sitelinks. For example, when searching for [amazon prime], the title of the top result is so big that it can't even be fully displayed, even if it doesn't have so many characters: "Amazon.com: Amazon Prime (One Year Membership)".






Here's the same search result, but for a slightly different query: [amazon prime membership].






I tested this for various navigational searches like [microsoft], [htc], [tesla], [stanford] in Google Search for Android, Chrome for Android and iOS and Safari for iOS.



{ Thanks, Lee. }