Or, maybe you noticed they’re missing entirely.

Some of the staff here at Review Geek have the new layout, and others don’t.

And some of us only see it on specific browsers.

The main page of the Homepage homelab dashboard with services running on it.

On my work phone, the buttons are missing entirely.

That said, here’s why they’re awful.

And a lot of these new buttons make no sense.

The word Windows 11 with a map pin on the right and the default windows 11 wallpaper as background.

Or, if I search for e-bikes, I get wild results that make no sense.

Tap that, and you get more randomness.

And when I tap the scroll arrow a second time, the image shortcut finally appears.

google search

What is happening, Google?

Instead of six buttons, we now have three and a half.

For whatever reason, Google mostly hides the button shortcut to images and video.

Google Search bar menu buttons

It’s a small change that affects how I use and interact with Google search results every day.

I’m not a fan, and I’mnot the only one that hates it.

We just want the images and video tabs to be where they always are.

new google search bar buttons

Is that so hard?

For now, it looks like Google is A/B testing this new design and layout with select users.

Google Search

By that, we mean that not everyone will see these changes right now.

Could this become the standard design in the future?

Nothing about this latest change is user-friendly or intuitive.

Google Search

Well, we’re not sure.

Are you seeing this new Google Search interface?