You might have noticed that recently Google had a facelift of their website. I think it looks better - "cleaner" maybe. You may also try the new tools available from Google Labs - the one that I enjoy playing with most is the viewer which permits page displaying as a continuous scrolling slide show without using keyboard or mouse. Quite cool, just check it out by yourself.

Also, a while ago the launched Google local allowing searching within local areas. The service is available only for the US, it is still in the beta version and similar to UK's UpMyStreet. This is the segment which the industry specialists claim that search engines' potential will be in the future. As a side comment Microsoft just announced at the end of last week the launch of their own search engine - MSNBot - sometimes this year. Google's competition becomes tough with MSN and Yahoo coming strong from behind - I am still not satisfied with Google's search results.