Is Google Planning a Redesign?

That’s not really a question if you listen to Matt Cutts and other top Google engineers. A Google redesign is in the works, and we are not just talking about the look and feel of the site. After all, who really cares about how Google.com looks as long as you get the most relevant results that help you move forward with your project. The future of search is social, mobile, and much more. Your only source of information will no longer be Google news. There are millions of people who are blogging, discussing issues in forums, creating videos, taking photos, and writing books on all kinds of topics. The next generation search engines bring all of that together.

If you have wanted to try this new Google design but have no clue how to, Gizmodo has you covered. The site has released a mini trick that forces your Google to use the new design to do your search. The trick does work, and the results are very interesting.

As you can see, the new design allows you to easily find what you are looking for by searching through videos, blogs, news, maps, forums, and much more. So there is a better organization of information involved here. The new design intends to save you time as well. As you can see in the below figure, there are plenty of ways now to customize your search results and get as much or as little as you want to see.

The so called trick doesn’t seem to work on international Google websites, but it should work fine on Google.com. Is this the future of Google? I am sure there will be changes and not all the services seem to be added on the interface (unless they are being discontinued). But it’s certainly worth looking at to get an idea what matters to Google in the near future.