I just wanted to mention the new Google Universal Search that was just released on the 16th. If you go to the Google home page you will now notice that the tabs over the search box have now moved to the the top left corner and have morphed into drop down navigational links. Search Engine Land does a way better job of explaining this then I ever could, but the basic idea behind universal search is that it seeks to take the information from other specialized search categories such as books, news, and video and blends that into the main search results page. This is good for people who never use these categories anyway, and doesn’t effect the people who use the special vertical categories. Overall, nice job Google on making changes without breaking anything.

Chinese Google still has the old layout and I don’t know if they plan on implementing this new system anytime soon. And something I just noticed today, try doing a side-by-side comparison of Google and Baidu and see how they look almost exactly the same.

Also worth checking out is this newish meta search engine Sputtr

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