Ask HN: Why has Google started adding icons above every search result?

2 pointsr_singh2 comments

Like this: https://imgur.com/a/jqCLuMc

It is truly hurting my eyes. Is anyone else as bothered by this change as I am?

Interesting. I searched a few terms and so far I like it. For me, it is faster for my brain to recognize a familiar icon than to read several chars. Searching sacramento for example I can quickly see wikipedia, usnews, sacbee. I hope google monitors for malicious icons that try to trick users to go to phishing sites.

Google enables you to upload your brand assets, so as they crawl the web and find phishing, they can deal with it near instantly.

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