Google Snack Pack Showing Different Colored Pins on Google Maps

[JasonKhoo]

Has anyone else noticed this? Does anyone know why the first result has a blue pin as opposed to the normal red pin?

[MiriamEllis]

Ooh! Good catch. I don't recall seeing this before, Jason. I can't replicate it for your search or any others I'm trying. Are you seeing the blue marker for any other searches, or was it just that one? Likely a test .. and an interesting one. That blue stands out! I'm going to tweet your post and see if I get anyone tweeting back that they are seeing or have seen this. Thanks for sharing it here with the community!

P.S. Tweeted here: https://twitter.com/Miriam_Ellis_/status/809940080068612096 Let's see if we get any feedback.

[MiriamEllis]

Hey Again Jason!

Just circling back to let you know that my tweet on this didn't receive any replies indicating that others have seen the blue dots. I even double checked with Joy Hawkins and she confirmed she hasn't seen this color variant. So, definitely sounds like a test. Good catch, and we'll see if it rolls out further.

[JasonKhoo]

Hi Miriam!

Thank you for getting back. I forgot to respond, but I actually reached out to Mike Blumenthal and he offered some good insight. He said that they recently found a bug but Google has been notified and is addressing it.

I added a link to our conversation on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/mblumenthal/status/809859102650335232

[MiriamEllis]

Hey, fascinating! Thanks for the link, and cool to know Google is investigating this. Thanks for the update, Jason.