As some of you may have noticed, I am addicted to stats. Every couple of hours I have to look at my blog stats or else I go crazy. Today I noticed that my Google traffic went up drastically and my referrers showed that I was getting traffic for terms such as “soesman”, so I decided to do a Google search and check it out. And lucky me, when I did a search I saw a newly designed Google search result page.
And here is a screenshot with Google ads
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I’ve heard a few people mention seeing that design over the last few months.
My suspicion is that Google are randomly (with very low chance) showing a different layout to do usability/acceptance tests on it.
Andrew, I thought the design was new. Thanks for setting me straight.
Thomas, Google is constantly updating which probably caused a shift in my Google traffic. The [backlink update](http://www.pronetadvertising.com/articles/whats-up-with-google.html) has been happening for a couple weeks and my Google traffic did not change until now.
As for the markup, I was not able to check. I am unable to see the new Google design anymore.
This is the default design i get when i browse using safari.
“As some of you may have noticed, I am addicted to stats. Every couple of hours I have to look at my blog stats or else I go crazy.”
Me and you both, brother. :)
Giri, if you clear your cache and cookies it should go back to the normal Google design.