{"id":6947,"date":"2026-04-22T09:19:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T01:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/?p=6947"},"modified":"2026-04-22T09:19:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T01:19:29","slug":"google-search-tests-opening-search-results-in-new-window","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/?p=6947","title":{"rendered":"Google Search Tests Opening Search Results In New Window"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p> <div> <p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.seroundtable.com\/google-robot-jump-1776614293.jpg\" style=\"max-width:100%\" alt=\"Google Robot Jump\" title=\"Google Search Tests Opening Search Results In New Window\u63d2\u56fe\" \/><\/p> <p>Google is reportedly testing opening search results in a new window. Yes, there is a setting to turn this on or off, but the setting is turned off and Google is testing opening these clicks in a new window.<\/p> <p>This was spotted by Sachin Patel who posted about it on X, he wrote &#8211; &#8220;On Google SERP, when users click on a website, it opens in a new window instead of the same tab.&#8221;<\/p> <p>Here is his video:<\/p> <p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.seroundtable.com\/google-opening-search-results-in-new-window-1776614258.gif\" style=\"max-width:100%\" alt=\"Google Opening Search Results In New Window\" title=\"Google Search Tests Opening Search Results In New Window\u63d2\u56fe1\" \/><\/p> <p>Can you replicate it?<\/p> <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"> <p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">isn&#8217;t that a google search setting? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cOziYjnOcO\">pic.twitter.com\/cOziYjnOcO<\/a><\/p> <p>\u2014 Barry Schwartz (@rustybrick) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rustybrick\/status\/2044110942934360208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 14, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote> <p>Forum discussion at X.<\/p> <\/p><\/div> <p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>#Google #Search #Tests #Opening #Search #Results #Window1776820769<\/p> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is reportedly testing opening search results in a new window. Yes, there is a setting to turn this on or off, but the setting is turned off and Google is testing opening these clicks in a new window. This was spotted by Sachin Patel who posted about it on X, he wrote &#8211; &#8220;On [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[75,16897,308,95,1706,10687],"class_list":["post-6947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-careers","tag-google","tag-opening","tag-results","tag-search","tag-tests","tag-window"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}