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Google Experimenting New Styling In Search Results

Search engines are always experimenting new user interface styling, usually these types of beta updates are first pushed to a small subset of users before going live for all users. Today, I was lucky enough to stumble upon a new refreshing combination of Google search result page styling - I am not sure whether this has been rolled out to all signed in users but using a different browser and a different username did not triggered the new user interface, more images after the jump.

New Google Search Result

[Video] The Google Master Plan

The Google Master Plan

We have seen humorous videos and pics on Google's increasing domination in our life and the privacy nightmare it creates - here is a serious video showing Google's increasing power and their "Master Plan".

Google Sting Operation Busts Bing Of Copying It's Search Results

Google ran a sting operation busting Bing copying it's results, the covert operation involved artificially ranking a page for a certain term (hiybbprqag) which nobody was searching for and returned no matches on both Google and Bing, Google then created “synthetic” searches asking few Google Engineers to use Bing Toolbar and Internet Explorer Suggested Sites features to click the artificially ranked page in Google which "Bing" copied proving there case.

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Google is making our brains dumber !

Google BrainIf you ask "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" the answer is "Yes" if Nicolas Carr, the author of book 'The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains' is to be believed. According to Nicolas the internet is making our brains dumber by depriving the exercise it needs, although a recent article published by Carr did used the title "Is Google Making Us Stupid?: What the Internet is doing to our brains" the article is not specifically targeted at Google, but at the whole effect of Internet which has made our lives so much easier negatively impacting our memory retention capabilities.

Google is making us dumb

Google Orkut Profile Information To Appear In Search Results

Google Orkut 'Orkut' user profile information will now appear in Google search results when someone searches for your name, the result will contain summary of your profile, including key details like your name, photo and location and will be called 'OneBox', according to Orkut help center:

Google Shared Stuff Now Online

A new service by Google named "Google Shared Stuff" is now online, this new service lets you share your links with your friends and everybody else public). The service make use of a bookmarklet in your browser's bookmark bar which popup's a new windows as shown below.

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