Google's new search-mash test site

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Google's gained a new unbranded site called SearchMash, where it plans to test user interface ideas without Google's brand somehow skewing the tests.

Currently, SearchMash allows you to perform a search and get Web and image results presented side by side. It's similar to how A9 has long allowed side-by-side results, ironically a feature that it's made much harder to implement after a recent redesign.

Web results are presented in the main left-hand column after a search and seem ranked the same as at Google. Presentation is different, however. Results are numbered, and clicking on the URL line pops up a box with options to:

Open the listing in the current window
Open the listing in a new window
See more pages from that Web site
Find similar pages

After the first 10 results, there's a "more Web pages" link at the bottom. Click on this, and you get another 10 results on the same page, inserted below the first 10. You can keep going, adding 10 more results at a time.