Google is trialing tiled search results on mobile. You can’t turn them off

[Modified3019]

https://support.google.com/websearch/thread/219132460/how-to-turn-off-tiled-visual-grid-search-results?hl=en

[s09dfhks]

Seems like they want to push the entirety of the web into using “clickbait YouTube thumbnails”

[Modified3019]

I’m not clear if it’s a mobile only thing yet, but if you’re wondering what’s wrong with the search results page, this is it.

Edit: example image of a search trying to see if someone archived Intel’s ssd Ark pages before they were purged, a short scroll from the ads at the top: https://imgur.com/a/v6G0l5K

As mentioned, you can’t turn it off, so your solutions are:

1) Stop using google (recommended)

2) Find addons that can alter the page for you.

[robswc]

I know google is king of bad UI/UX but this is almost comical. Utterly unusable.

[iamevn]

For some reason Firefox Android often freezes when interacting with tiles in Google search results (especially bad with image searches). It's really annoying.

[DropInIn]

So, google really wants me to start using the "Bing search" context menu item Samsung foisted on me with my s22, huh?

[mydriasis]

It's fully unusable, and super frustrating.