Google’s taking the extra search box out of your search results
by Emma Roth from The Verge - All Posts on (#6RMVM)
Image: Google For years, Google has included an extra search box within some search results, encouraging you to dig further and look only within a specific website. But now that sitelinks search box is going away because usage has dropped."
It's been over ten years since we initially announced the sitelinks search box in Google Search, and over time, we've noticed that usage has dropped. With that, and to help simplify the search results, we'll be removing this visual element starting on November 21, 2024.
If you have no idea what I'm talking about, it will probably make more sense if you see it:
Screenshot: The VergeSee that little search box beneath the link for The New York Times? That's what Google's taking away. You...