As you all must have noticed it by now, Google search bar has gotten bigger and in Google’s words “symbolizes our focus on search and because it makes our clean, minimalist homepage even easier and more fun to use. The new, larger Google search box features larger text when you type so you can see your query more clearly. It also uses a larger text size for the suggestions below the search box, making it easier to select one of the possible refinements.”

Google Homepage - Before

Google Homepage - After

Google has been making many changes in recent history and to make the larger search bar public without any beta testing seems like a gutsy move for Google. As for statistics, the new search bar is 32% larger than its predecessor. As for my two pennies on this phenomenon, I am not very enthusiastic about this change and definitely looks strange; seeing that we’ve been using the old page for quite some time now and are very used to it.

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