August Google Search Feature Tests

Here are all the search features that Google has been testing in August.
You can click on link icons and it will scroll down to show you more info like screen shorts or recordings.

  1. New UI for pins in Local Pack 🔗
  2. Product images in GBP – showing “In stock” and product names overlayed on the image 🔗
  3. Local Pack – last image being a close up of the map 🔗
  4. Short videos but showing up in video tab 🔗
  5. Options to change playback speed for the videos in Search Results 🔗
  6. A new UI for Short videos carousels in Search Results 🔗
  7. “See also” in Desktop Knowledge Panels 🔗
  8. Different fallback favicons 🔗
  9. Background color for featured snippets 🔗
  10. Dynamically changing the product image in the product panels 🔗
  11. Blue background for images when they are clicked 🔗
  12. A New UI for “You visit often” 🔗
  13. AI Overviews generated description of site in “About the source” 🔗
  14. Hover over bluish background for meta info in Search Results 🔗
  15. New UI for Local Pack in Search Results 🔗
  16. Pill like site links in Desktop Search Results 🔗
  17. Blue outline for images when they are selected 🔗
  18. Scroll through Local Pack – Google Business Profiles (GBP) 🔗
  19. Multiple different variations of UI for Videos pack in Search Results 🔗
  20. Displaying product panels in the way that it does for products which are displayed as grids in Search Results 🔗

Also I have recorded this video – me discussing all of these search features. If your interested in watching a video of me going over these new search feature tests. You can watch this ….

Google is now testing – new UI for pins📍in Local Pack. I’m not sure how this can be described 😅

Here are screenshots of
current vs test 👇

Also there are some other variations of pins as well which Google is testing – if I start to notice them more often.

I will share those as well but right now those are showing up barely and under lying code changes suggest that there can be a new “set of pins” which may show up in the pack depending upon the query type

Google Business Profile (GBP) listings for eCom related queries – Google is now testing pulling relevant images from store – showing them in listing with labels ‘In stock’ and product name is also overlayed at bottom of image.

Also I have posted screen recording showing this on X.

Google testing – last image a close up of business location on the map.

Here is how this looks …. and I have posted a screen recording of this on X as well.

Google for some queries now testing showing Short videos carousel in Videos tab.

Isn’t the Short videos tab enough for short form content 😄

Google is now testing showing Playback Speed buttons in the overlay that shows up when in Search Results > Video carosuel > YouTube video – top right corner expanding button is clicked.

Also I have posted on X – two screen recordings showing this new feature for usual videos and for Youtube Short videos as well.

Google is now testing new UI for cards display in Short videos carousel – current vs NEW here👇

Some difference in the layout of individual cards + display of video length in bottom left corner in NEW UI (right image)

“See also” in Knowledge Panels

Google is now testing default fallback favicon in Search Results
Its a blue color arrow with light bluish background color.

Also I noticed some other variations of this – a link icon with again bluish background color, globe like icon with lines, grey circle with a white globe icon inside.

All the variations which I’ve noticed so far in Search Results.

Arrow ones here …..

And here are link icon ones ……..

Globe icon ones …

And here is – Grey circle with a white globe icon inside

Google is now testing background color for featured snippets.
Its like a rectangular color box in the background and text is overlayed on it.

Here are some screenshots showing how it look in Search Results



Google is testing hover over dynamically changing the product image in the product panels.

Right now users have to click on the different image cards.

Screen recording of this here.

Google is now testing blue background for images when they are clicked.

Note – this is only in Search Results and not in images tab.

Here is how it look like.

And here is the screen recording.

Google is now testing new UI for “You visit often” which shows multiple URLs.

“You visit often” is a label that shows up in Search Results with URLs which are visited by user more often.

Google is now testing AI Overviews Generated Descriptions of site in “About the source” which shows up when three dots next to URL in Search Results are clicked.

I have posted this thread on X – you can many examples of this over there.

Backlinko
Rock Content


Moz
Neil Patel


Search Engine Roundtable
Swinburne University of Technology


Here are so many examples of this ………..

Google testing hover over bluish background for meta info in Search Results

New UI for Local Pack in Desktop Search Results

Pill like site links in Desktop Search Results

Note – Search Engine Roundtable previously have reported about couple of variations of this being tested by Google in mobile results – and now I’m noticing those in Desktop Search Results.

Blue outline for images when they are selected

Also this is being tested for product images in the Product Grids in usual search results.

And in the Shopping tab as well

Scroll through local pack – Google Business Profiles (GBP) on mobile

3 different variations of UI for Videos pack > Youtube

Click to expand for better viewing of the image – cheers!!

In the Google Business Profiles (GBPs) Google is now testing to display product panels in the way that it does for products which are displayed as grids in Search Results.

Screen recording of NEW vs CURRENT here 👇