Google has made changes to its graphical user interface again for no apparent reason, causing great confusion to the millions of users who use the features that still remain on Google's website after many features have been removed over the years, and who are part of the A/B test since Google doesn't show everyone in the world the same UI for some reason.
It's unclear what Google's objectives are with this recent change, except perhaps trolling its own users and giving degoogling advocates more fuel to tell people that they shouldn't use Google anymore, and that instead they should use Bi-, DuckDuckGo. That they should use DuckDuckGo. Some probable hypotheses for what caused the change include:
- The change saves a couple of bytes per webpage load, saving Google enough money to build a new datacenter in a couple of years.
- The feature is going to be removed and this change hopes to make it less discoverable so that fewer people use it to justify removing it later.
- The change was needed to help an employee get a promotion at Google by showing that they have done something to the board that reviews their performance.
- The change is actually changing the UI back to what it was before, because its A/B test demonstrated poor results.
- Change? What change? There was no change. You're hallucinating.
It's presumed that Google users are divided into 1% who hate the change and wish to change it back, or at least have a setting for that, or a browser extension, and 99% who haven't noticed the change at all and never used the feature in first place.