Is Google preparing a new interface?

A few people have seen a slightly different interface while they were using Google this week.
I found this information via Ars Technica. If you want to see what the “new” interface looks like, at least the one Google’s trying right now, you can do this as explained in the article:

– 1: Go to www.google.com

– 2: In your address bar, just paste this string:

javascript:alert(document.cookie=”PREF=ID=fb7740f107311e46:TM=1142683332:

LM=1142683332:S=fNSw6ljXTzvL3dWu;path=/;domain=.google.com”)

and press enter, that will set a cookie in your computer.

– 3: Do a search and check out the links on the left.

Apparently Google would like to relocate to shortcuts to images, news and results categories to the left. The green bar seems to give an idea of the number of results available in each category. They are probably willing to entice users to use other categories to ease their search.
I did a test for “country music”:

Well, not bad, but we’re still waiting for Google to show us something more Web 2.0…

2 thoughts on “Is Google preparing a new interface?”

  1. Tim

    Thanks for the tip Nadir – certainly interesting. Just a small note that WordPress has replaced your quotes in that cookie string with smart quotes, which throw a JS error.

  2. Nadir Post author

    Thanks Tim, I tried to fix the problem but WordPress still replaces quotes automatically with smart quotes… The string looks better here if people want to try it.

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