The new UI sports information on results in other sections (images, groups, froogle and news) that core users don’t tend to use. The new UI also cleans up the head of the page (significantly), and loses the light blue background bar indicating which page users are on.

To view the new UI, follow these simple steps…

1. Head over to google.com
2. In the address bar, paste one of the javascript commands
3. Enter a search query, and voila!

US:
javascript:alert(document.cookie="PREF=ID=fb7740f107311e46:TM=1142683332:LM=1142683332:S=fNSw6ljXTzvL3dWu;path=/;domain=.google.com")

UK:
javascript:alert(document.cookie="PREF=ID=fb7740f107311e46:TM=1142683332:LM=1142683332:S=fNSw6ljXTzvL3dWu;path=/;domain=.google.co.uk")

NL:
javascript:alert(document.cookie="PREF=ID=fb7740f107311e46:TM=1142683332:LM=1142683332:S=fNSw6ljXTzvL3dWu;path=/;domain=.google.nl")

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Taking
advantage of its access to its medley of related information services
from news to blogs, Google on Tuesday introduced Google Finance, a beta
web site that offers much of the same data as Yahoo and Microsoft, but
in Google’s trademark minimalist design style.

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Discussion of a web based productivity suite from Google has been making the rounds on the internet for quite some time, and with the recent news of a Google Calendar project in the works many see Google positioning itself to take on Microsoft Office Live which is currently in beta. The acquisition of Upstartle, a Silicon Valley based software development company is sure to add fuel to the debates.

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Google is rumored to be in talks with Writely, a browser-based document processing application, for a possible acqusition.

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Emoticons for Gmail Chat are extremely simple, but cute. From Monkeys, Hearts,
Rockin Out, to a guy with Sunglasses….lots of fun!

Gmail Skins is a Firefox extension that lets you change the look of your Gmail inbox (amongst some other things).

It adds the following features:

•  Change the colour/skin of your inbox
•  Insert smileys/emoticons and images in to your emails
•  Make the navigation (Inbox, Starred, Sent Mail, etc) horizontal
•  Fix the navigation in place so that you don’t have to scroll to the top of the page to see it
•  Zebra stripes on mailbox – pretty!
•  Change the attachment paperclip (on inbox) to an icon indicating the type of attachment
•  Hide various page elements (invite panel, page footer, your email address from the top right of inbox – may be useful for public computers)

Screenshots

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The path from just text to full multimedia has finished (text->images->animation->Flash video).

1. Go to http://video.google.com/
2. Enter your search term as ‘hardcore porn’
3. Press search
4. Hah!

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