The “Break it Down” Blog

In an attempt to compete with the oncoming shit-house that is Microsoft’s Bing, Facebook’s real-time Search and everyone else generally wanting a piece of the Google pie, Google has pulled version 2 of Google Search out of the garage for some beta test runs while they tighten the screws over the coming months.

You can give it a try and read Mashable for a bit more information on the strategy behind it.

It’s interesting to see Google muscled into doing anything honestly… and so far I can’t tell that much of a difference with the new search results — but that’s only after playing with it for 10 mins and I think the mark of a successful roll-out is if no one can tell the difference except possibly that it “feels better”.

Update #1: Tom Robinson, afflicted with a horrible case of badass, has thrown together a side-by-side results comparison util for Google 1.0 and 2.0, give it a try.