The redesigned query results for desktop look more like the mobile search results in Google's app because it highlights each following result from the query in a highlighted box that makes it stand out. The desktop search design only appears when the user is logged out from Google, according to the report.
The downside for users is that if they are not looking for general information they must scroll further down the page to see actual search results indexed and pulled in from the Web. Articles from the “In the news” list appear in one card and the “People also search for” list is now at the bottom of the page rather at the bottom of the sidebar.