Google is running an experiment in their search results

Google is running an experiment in their search results, apparently shown to a portion of their users. What happens is that on the search results, say for the query dotcomexpert, a link in the top blue bar will read “Show options...”. Click it, and a side bar full of options expands to the left

If you want to try out this experiment yourself, that’s possible. All you need to do is go to google.com and paste the following into the address bar, and hit return – that will set a cookie telling Google you’re taking part in the prototype:




javascript:void(document.cookie=
"PREF=ID=4a609673baf685b5:TB=
2:LD=en:CR=2:TM=1227543998:LM=
1233568652:DV=AA:GM=1:IG=3:S=yFGqYec2D7L0wgxW;path=/; domain=.google.com");