For the previous couple of weeks now, we have been listening to reviews of how Google will change Google Search within the wake of AI and adjustments in searcher habits. As a lot of you recognize, I cowl a ton of Google Search person interface adjustments and I put collectively a group of a few of these adjustments we discovered that I believe Google may announce at I/O as the way forward for Google Search.

A few weeks in the past we coated the NY Occasions piece of Undertaking Magi, an “all-new search engine” that Google is engaged on to usher in a customized search engine with numerous AI-power. Then over the weekend, the Wall Road Journal wrote concerning the new search engine coming from Google that’s extra “visible, snackable, private, and human, with a concentrate on serving younger folks globally.” The article talks about brief movies, which Google has had since 2020 however now Google may present much more of them. It additionally talks about including Bard-like options instantly to look and extra.

So listed here are some new options that I believe Google could also be saying at I/O associated to this new search engine.

As I used to be scripting this up on Sunday, Glenn Gabe posted and summed up a few of these featured properly on this tweet, however let me dig into them extra:

Bear in mind, Google has been testing, or has launched, options & performance that could possibly be leveraged with this new transfer. E.g. Google Discover, Brief Movies, Q&A, Views, Featured Snippets from a number of sources, varied forms of carousels, & extra. Anticipating Wednesday. 🙂 https://t.co/SDovnAntmD

— Glenn Gabe (@glenngabe) Could 7, 2023

Bard (of kinds) Built-in Into Google Search

That is the one screenshot I mocked up myself to display how Google Bard, or one thing comparable, may be built-in rather than featured snippets within the Google Search outcomes. The remainder of the pictures under are all assessments now we have seen from Google within the wild:

Visible Grid Codecs

A few weeks in the past, we noticed a extra visible grid format for the search outcomes. Listed here are some screenshots:

This was noticed by Brandon on Twitter who posted a video solid of this in motion, here’s a nonetheless screenshot from that video you could click on on to enlarge:

Right here is one other one from Valentin Pletzer on Twitter:

And one from Jen Cornwell on Twitter:

Extra Brief Movies

We have been seeing Google present extra brief movies lately, with it launching in November 2020 and began so as to add sources of brief video content material past YouTube, additionally Instagram and TikTok and Fb video – we have even seen them examined on desktop. Much more lately by including brief movies into accordion menus. So Google could also be displaying them much more usually after I/O?

Google Short Videos

Google Discover

Google Discover has been in testing since June 2022 and since then, it has misplaced its title and has made its means into extra areas like native discover areas. Google additionally did announce this function later, however Google has been recognized to re-announce options at occasions.

Holy cannoli!

Have y’all ever seen this “Discover” part of the SERP?

After scrolling down far sufficient seeing an entire subtopical parsing underneath a brand new part of the SERP entitled “Discover” – wild!

What is that this sorcery?!

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— Mordy Oberstein *winner of laser tag* (@MordyOberstein) June 13, 2022

Discover Inside Snippets

Google simply began testing discover inside search snippets.

Views

Since August 2022, Google has been testing views, which it really took reside in March 2023. We additionally lately noticed Google testing views within the search menu.

Here’s what that appears like: