Most of my desktop programs already work that way, why shouldn’t Google? I think there's a difference. Most desktop apps return structured results in tabular

Most of my desktop programs already work that way, why shouldn’t Google? I think there's a difference. Most desktop apps return structured results in tabular format. Those are much easier to skim because you know what to expect in each field, and you're usually looking at only one column anyways (e.g. the "title" or "filename"). Google results are not tabular (perhaps they should be?) and I find it rather hard to keep track of what I had already skimmed while the display shuffles furiously.