After a few months of testing it now appears Google has started rolling out the new search bar with icons. Instead of just using text to show the various search categories or verticals for news ...

You can make Google your default search engine on Chrome, Firefox, Safari, or Edge. With Google as your default search engine, every query you put in the address bar goes to Google.

Click the icon of your current default search engine on the left side of the search toolbar. Click the icon of your desired search engine on the left side of the browser toolbar. 2.

Google is testing a new search bar menu with icons next to the names of the search categories. So instead of just showing the search vertical filters for displaying news results or image results ...

The icons in the menu bar takes it back to a user interface Google had in 2011, which Google shortly dropped a year or so later. Forum discussion at Twitter . Copied!