The New Google Layout

No doubt if you are reading this, you've noticed that Google has suddenly got a lot brighter, more "animated" and has (shock horror) changed up it's layout. But this isn't just another one of those few pixels to the left, add a few links layout change-up, because depending on the version you are looking at (and yes there are multiple layouts being trialled at the moment) Google's iconic logo may have (finally) been updated, and/or the search results may have moved an inch to the left. The results appear to get a little crammed in, if you're still working on a 1024x768 screen resolution (methinks the employees at Google have long since up-sized their personal monitors from such a meager resolution).

If you haven't yet been pooled into one of Google's apparently random selection of people to trial a layout on, or even if you're just interested in seeing the other layouts Google is trialling, I've done some digging and pulled as many versions of the layout as I can and will post them below.







New Google Logo








Old Google Logo



Here are some of the different layout sprites being offered by Google at the moment:




















The Bars at the bottom are the colors of the buttons.


There are many more that are small variations of the above, which suggests Google is trialing a lot of little variations and slowly narrowing down the best features and removing unpopular ones.

Judging by the numbering, gray buttons and larger 16px x 16px icons are the current Google favorite, including the blue aqua bubbles for location based searches and disguarding the promote/delete system of customisable page ranks in favor of a bookmarking star.

Stay tuned people, there is surely more yet to come.