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Test out the new result pages for Google

Would you like to try the newest UI test from Google for their search result pages?  Screenshots of the new design have been making their rounds for a while, but now we can finally test it ourselves.
Written by Garett Rogers, Inactive

Would you like to try the newest UI test from Google for their search result pages?  Screenshots of the new design have been making their rounds for a while, but now we can finally test it ourselves.

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[image from Googlefied]
Haochi at Googlefied has the "magic cookies" that will transform the look of your result pages.  Paste this string it into your address bar while on google.com and refresh the page (please remove all spaces, they were added for formatting purposes).
javascript:alert(document.cookie= "PREF=ID=ad93daafaa747f70:TM=1158373640: LM=1158374016:GM=1:S=wNuiLiKHrkRnMZtf;path=/; domain=.google.com")

Philipp Lenssen isn't sure he likes the design, and I'm going to have to agree with him.  There is just something about it that makes me wonder if there is a better way to do it. 

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