Google updated their search engine today.

They key points:

• Google introduce Universal Search, integrating news, images, videos, books and local results into the main  results: “Google’s vision for universal search is to ultimately search across all its content sources, compare and rank all the information in real time, and deliver a single, integrated set of search results that offers users precisely what they are looking for”.
• Google introduce a context-sensitive navigation menu – dynamically generated navigation links have been added above the search results to suggest additional information that is relevant to a user’s query.
• Google launch Google Experimental,which allows users to try out new search features.

Further select reading and reviews:

• Google’s Official Press Release
• Danny Sullivan’s excellent write-up, including the consequences for SEMs
• Techcrunch
  
• Videocast (“featuring” some very tedious user stories spouting undying Google love – I switched off. Also note the Microsoft-y colors used beneath the Searchology logo….)