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Online Marketing Blog: Google Testing Left Side Tabs?

  • Joe Whyte · 2 years ago
    Hey Lee,

    Great catch! I informed Philipp lenssen about your google find. Hopefully he will repost this for you!


    -Joe
  • Tony · 2 years ago
    I've got this one too (have couple of screenshots lying around somewhere), while my friend was seeing nothing but the old layout at the same time.

    Must be a limited trial type of thing, same as their Ads by Goooooogle AdSense tests.
  • Everett · 2 years ago
    Were you using your own laptop from the same IP? If so, perhaps your friend has an adware virus that changes the page. I have had this happen to me before. It might be somethnig you can look into if nobody else seems to be able to replicate it on a different computer. Just a thought.
  • Tony · 2 years ago
    What? I've said that I replicated the results on my computer... I guess I'd have to post about that, but I'm not going to get back to my saved screenshots until Tuesday.
  • Matt McGee · 2 years ago
    I think I do recall seeing similar screenshots at some point in the past few months, Lee. Don't recall where.

    I never get to see these fun experiments. :-)
  • Teli Adlam · 2 years ago
    Hey Lee,
    I've been seeing this off and on for a little while now, I even blogged about it (with a screenshot) back in Oct. '06. I mistook it for a redesign, but it seems they're still testing it out.

    ~ Teli
  • Wayne Smallman · 2 years ago
    Hi Lee and well spotted!

    I'm not sure using vertical space is optimal, especially when either the search content or the adverts have to suffer to make room .. or worse still, both.

    Horizontal is clearly the way to go, here...
  • Manoj Jasra · 2 years ago
    I noticed something similar about in December last year but have never seen it again until this post:

    http://manojjasra.blogspot.com/2006/12/google-t...