In January, Google’s head of products, Chris Cox, told Recode that the company was working on ways to make self-editing more like reading a book.
“You’re always looking for new ways to enhance your user experience,” Cox said.
“This is an opportunity to really help people see when you’re self-correcting or self-modifying.”
In March, Cox reiterated those same sentiments to Recode, saying that “this is not about replacing what you have now, but what we want to do in the future is make it really easy for people to self-edit.”
“What we’re working on is creating a place where you can read something and then start editing it,” he said.
It’s a move that could help Google become more relevant to the digital natives who rely on social media to find out what’s going on in the world.
And it could have significant implications for Google’s relationship with publishers, who are increasingly using the company as an intermediary to help make their content available to publishers.
The first big change Cox made was to make the self-explanatory interface a thing of the past.
As Cox told Rec.com, “we’re taking a very hard look at the way we work and how we interact with people, to make sure that the user experience is as seamless as possible.”
That means a redesign of Google Search results.
Google Search still displays results by subject, but the interface now makes it easier to jump between different sections of results.
Instead of going to a section for the specific product or service you’re looking at, you can now just jump to the next page to get a general overview of what you’re seeing.
This also includes a “featured” section on the left side of the screen that lets you see what the company has available in a particular search.
Google says that this is a “step back” for search, but it could still be an effective way for the company to make a bigger impact.
“If you look at what Google has done with the search results, they’ve been very good,” Cox told the magazine.
“We’re very excited to see what we can do to bring that experience up to date.
That way, if you go to Google Search now, you’ll see more information, and it will be much more relevant.”
Google also introduced a new way for publishers to add their content to search results.
Now publishers can add text to search result text.
This is not the first time Google has gone the route of offering publishers a new feature to add content to their search results — Google has previously introduced a feature called “SEO” to allow publishers to include information about their site in search results for a fee.
This was done to help Google improve its search results more than just to improve its own services.
Cox told Re/code that this feature was one of many “steps” that Google has taken in order to help publishers.
“The reason why this is important is because this is going to be a big part of Google’s future,” Cox explained.
“It’s a very important part of our future.
And we think it’s very valuable for publishers.”
Google is already experimenting with this sort of feature.
“Google is experimenting with the new way publishers can insert text into search results and we think this is the first step in bringing this to other publishers,” Cox continued.
“And we think publishers have been really good at using Google search results to make their own content available for their readers to discover.”
Google will continue to experiment with the feature, Cox said, and Google is open to “many other ways to do this.”
This isn’t the first example of the search giant experimenting with features like this.
Google has experimented with this for years.
Google is also working on “solution buttons” that publishers can click on to get information about what Google is offering.
It might be an interesting way to let publishers know that they should be more likely to add links to their own services to their Google search rankings.
But it’s unlikely that this will be the next big thing Google adds to its search engine.
“I can’t imagine that we’re ever going to get rid of this,” Cox noted.
“But I can tell you we’re actively working on a lot of things that will make it a lot easier for people, for publishers, to get what they need.”