The search icon represented as a magnifying glass was created by interface designer Keith Ohlfs. He worked as a designer and illustrator for NeXT company founded by Steve Jobs after he left Apple.

“Search” — in blue Google Sans — replaces a similar colored magnifying glass icon at the very right of the search field. It’s next to the existing microphone icon in Google’s four ...

It compliments the current voice search icon on the other side. When on the search engine results page (SERP), a new “Search” button replaces the previous blue magnifying glass at the right.

Google recently tested removing the magnifying glass icon from the desktop search box recently. Forum discussion at Twitter . Update: Here is another variation of this, with a smaller magnifying ...

Microsoft Bing seems to have swapped out the magnifying glass button on the search bar in the search results landing page with the button that says "search." It is a small but interesting change ...