While I don't miss underlines, making titles bigger removes a few words from long titles and that's not a good thing. Here are some search results for [google maps api]:
* "Google Street View hack turns your city into a post-apocalypt..." (full title: "Google Street View hack turns your city into a post-apocalyptic jungle")
* "Google puts a limit on free Google Maps API: over 25,000 da..." (full title: "Google puts a limit on free Google Maps API: over 25,000 daily and you pay")
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcwd631X18l_JglFwGcAvKhfwlKDJSr9cNNALLFPmBb4dPP2Yt69c8GN85u-CxduaQje5a6ynjpkei7iSNBpof5ggi_hjjabPl-fnMK1xQroyukpuJpo0kOwRwtdbH53UwqIbRwA/s1600/google-search-new-title-ui-2.png)
As you can see from these examples, only a few words are removed, but the truncated titles are difficult to understand.
Here's a side-by-side comparison between the new layout and the old one:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9CNQ4oeTUVJiNi_YUfhg28zl0QNq0ek9PBWgVEihR5bjMgGOTqpo0Xn-B4aVbV16x9iFMaUR60mftZuLhEg94Yfd9UTFwKqBlhtuUBD-B6IsKg__aUKS-_XRmlFGu5kKO3Vov4A/s1600/search-ui-big-new-vs-old.png)
From what I know, Google has never displayed a few characters from a word in search results titles. Now it has to do this.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAf6J1PcwUofg2nkko4YPnRXq0r8cbPABkGkp-cCiJT6LTM0DV2IrQ33lNE7Yxm1dfZBzg3jSG4ebJ1IML_QNjaOpFtBUF6V1bnu54mHKQiLRLvbhnVxg3tH7gj6Rwht3Ca13V7A/s1600/google-search-new-title-ui-3.png)
Scanning a list of search results has turned into a game: "guess the title". "Department of Computer S..."? It must be "science". "Combinatorial optimization problems in wireless switch de..."? Hard to say.
I think it's awful.
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