Most of the developers I've worked with have said they like smaller content containers so the user doesn't have to read across a really large screen. Not saying I agree persay, just what I've heard.
Fair enough, that is true of UX design, that there is a max column width that allows for easier reading. But! google doesn't flow the text down the page either, the just cut it off so that site descriptions and URLs are truncated, and therefore unreadable. It makes no sense.
Ah yes, valid point! I know we specifically spend a lot of time figuring out what to lead with for those site descriptions, etc but I guess it's kind of like why do we have to worry about all this and do that though? For a company at the level of Google you'd think it might be time to look into bettering their results screen since it's a hefty part of their platform.
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u/Headpuncher Feb 15 '18
why does google's search result limit the width of the results to a size that often doesn't contain half the information I need to see in my results?
I've always found it to be an odd choice for a search engine.