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A return to Google’s 10 blue links.

Hotel-related search results in Germany, Belgium, and Estonia are temporarily stripping out the map, property info and other clutter as shown in the gallery below. After the test, Google will look at how the change impacted “both the user experience and traffic to websites.”

It’s part of a series of changes meant to appease the EU’s DMA police and travel sites that have lost traffic as Google’s search results became worse, according to users, but more helpful, according to the advertising giant.

Update, November 26th: Added before and after images.

<em>Status quo before the test.</em>
<em>The ten blue links seen during Google’s testing.</em>
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Status quo before the test.
Screengrab by Thomas Ricker / The Verge
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