{"id":739888,"date":"2013-02-28T12:19:49","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T17:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/?p=219310"},"modified":"2013-02-28T12:19:49","modified_gmt":"2013-02-28T17:19:49","slug":"will-googles-navigation-interface-look-like-this-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/739888","title":{"rendered":"Will Google\u2019s Navigation Interface Look Like This Soon?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google is testing yet another redesign of its navigation interface. <\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t seem like that long ago that Google launched the current navigation interface, but that doesn&#8217;t mean they&#8217;re not exploring other options. <\/p>\n<p>Alex Chitu at Google Operating System was tipped on a new test Google is running, which includes a more visual style for accessing various Google services. He <a href=\"http:\/\/googlesystem.blogspot.com\/2013\/02\/google-tests-new-navigation-interface.html\">provides this screenshot<\/a>: <\/p>\n<p><center><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cdn.ientry.com\/sites\/webpronews\/article_pics\/new-ui-test.jpg?w=780\" alt=\"New test\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure where the Google+ notification counter is hidden in this version of Google&#8217;s design. I can&#8217;t imagine they&#8217;d want to do away with that, considering it was one of the key motivating factors to get users to visit and engage with the Google+ social destination. <\/p>\n<p>As Chitu points out, the design is kind of similar to the Chrome app launcher Google has been previewing. Google put out a post about this last week. Here&#8217;s what that looks like:<\/p>\n<p><center><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cdn.ientry.com\/sites\/webpronews\/pictures\/chrome-app-launcher.jpg?w=780\" alt=\"Chrome App Launcher\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Google tests stuff all the time, and much of it never sees the light of day, so don&#8217;t freak out just yet. Google runs <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/google-runs-20000-search-experiments-a-year-heres-the-process-diagramed-2012-04\">20,000 search experiments a year<\/a>, according to Matt Cutts. <\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=gifd1MgVt2A:9MNZCtI_boE:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=gifd1MgVt2A:9MNZCtI_boE:wF9xT3WuBAs\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=gifd1MgVt2A:9MNZCtI_boE:wF9xT3WuBAs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=gifd1MgVt2A:9MNZCtI_boE:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=gifd1MgVt2A:9MNZCtI_boE:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=gifd1MgVt2A:9MNZCtI_boE:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=gifd1MgVt2A:9MNZCtI_boE:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=gifd1MgVt2A:9MNZCtI_boE:mfZ73u_VV2s\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=gifd1MgVt2A:9MNZCtI_boE:mfZ73u_VV2s\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/webpronews\/all\/~4\/gifd1MgVt2A\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is testing yet another redesign of its navigation interface. 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Alex Chitu at Google Operating System was tipped on a new test Google is running, which includes a more visual style for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-739888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-36tG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=739888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}