Big Google Announcements

Today at Google’s Searchology event, Google made some big product announcements. These included the following:

1. Universal Search - Google aims to integrate their search products (image, maps, video, etc.) so when you do a Google search, you will see the variety of results on one page without having to click another link. Here’s an example. Here’s another. Oooh, did Google just get their images in my news results? Or did my news results just get in Google’s images?
2. Google Video Search - now it searches other video sites besides just Google Video and YouTube. This is a no-brainer, and frankly, should have been done a long time ago.
3. Google Experimental launched - with Google Experimental, you can test out new, experimental features like timeline and keyboard shortcuts. When can I test out that feature where I can Google my brain? I still have trouble finding stuff in there…