Google Streamlines, Targets Search: Its Biggest Change in Years

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Google isn't exactly staid, but Search, its bread and butter, tends to change slowly--a new feature here, a new logo there. Today is the first major overhaul in recent memory, and it looks pretty great.

Aesthetically, it's a little cleaner and more modern; the graphics are a bit "flatter," but it's still obviously Google, what with the primary colors and simple layout. But the layout has definitely changed. Whereas in the old Google, the different types of search (video, photo, blog, news...