Google Search Sidebar Menu: Google’s Latest Introduction In War Against Facebook
The aforementioned menu can be brought forward by pressing the hamburger menu in the top left corner of the Google Search page. This Google search sidebar menu comprises of four options – Home, Saved, Settings and Help.
Features of the Google Search Sidebar Menu
Tapping on ‘Saved’ on this newly introduced Google search sidebar menu shows you the content that you save while navigating Google Search & Maps. This is sort of a pinned collection of images that you like and want to quickly go through at one place. This is also the place where you can look at the places you have saved, etc. Simply put, this is quite similar to the ‘saved’ feature on Facebook. Finally, the settings option. Tapping on the settings of the Google search sidebar menu will bring you to the search settings. This gives you the basic options to tweak your search results such as turning safe search on or off, enabling or disabling recent locations, etc. You can also tweak the language of the search results, as well as the language used by the Google products you use there.
All said and done, this is quite a handy feature from Google. The purpose of this Google search sidebar menu is to give users easy access to saved content and to give Google a familiar option that Facebook users are actively using since months. The sidebar menu is currently being tested with a few users and is likely to get a bigger rollout in the days to follow. Stay tuned with us for more updates! RELATED: Show up to 100 Results in Google Search
