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Preview Google's New Search Results Page

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday March 27, 2006 @07:16AM from the meet-the-new-boss-same-as-the-old-boss dept.

ubermiester writes "Ars Technica demonstrates how to copy and paste a bit of JavaScript to preview a facelifted Google. Ars points out that 'the changes are minimal, but they give some insight into Google's plans.'" I thought we already knew those: world domination.

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old news by gEvil+(beta) · 2006-03-27 07:21 · Score: 5, Informative

Ummm, they've been experimenting with this for about two months now. I get a results page in this layout about once a week or so.

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Re:How does one go about "discovering" this code? by isometrick · 2006-03-27 08:13 · Score: 5, Informative

Google beta tests new features on a subset of its regular users, who are identified by cookies. So someone released their cookie which you set with javascript, and voila: the features show up for you.
Apparently just a mockup by aniefer · 2006-03-27 08:52 · Score: 3, Informative

It appears that the green bars beside the other categories don't actually portray the number of search results for the other categories. They remain the same from search to search, even when a given search returns no results.