itworld.com — Some Web users are reporting seeing a reformatted Google Inc. results page that has the links to specialized search pages listed in the left-hand column instead of placed horizontally across the top of the search box.
Jan 25, 2006 View in Crawl 4
emostarJan 26, 2006
I saw this too... and for me it was to the right of the search input box and it was a drop down list of all the services to search. I prefer the way it is know, it is easy to switch between them (especially when using Google Desktop)
moguaJan 26, 2006
saw this over a month ago.<a class="user" href="http://qster.com/2005/12/20/new-google-search-ui/">http://qster.com/2005/12/20/new-google-search-ui/</a>
daschJan 26, 2006
I hope they're giong away from their ancient table-based markup and use more semantically correct HTML.
vh1_Jan 26, 2006
"Wish they'd add a popup icon so we could popup the search results to a new tab or window without having to hold CTRL or SHIFT, or using a UserScript."middle-click?of course it looks cluttered, the picture has a tiny resolution and it's got the sponsered links on the right
mrm52Jan 26, 2006
If they are going to have the sections on the side they might as well list of all of them. They have the real estate to do that and not have the "more" button.
smilyJan 26, 2006
I don't think it's a good idea because I guess most of the people searching on google automatically look to the left for titles (at least I do), so with the change, you would expect to view a title, but instead you get some graphs that you'll not usually use. As LAUGHTERKILLSME said earlier, it would be a better idea to move it under the search bar on the top of the page horizontally or they could move it on the right of the search box arranged in 2-3 rows as I assume that would just fill up the blank space that's there, instead of making new blank space. There :)