jimbeetle - 10:16 pm on May 16, 2007 (gmt 0)

They're calling it Universal Search. It was announced on Google's searchology webcast today. Though today was the official launch, it started rolling out a couple of weeks ago and should be completed in a week or two.

From now on when a search is done the SERPs can include results from any of the verticals - web, images, video, news, maps, base, etc. And these won't be in the old OneBox location (except images), they'll be 'ranked' in the SERPs as G sees fit.

At the same time G is rolling out a new 'universal' nav bar across all search verticals and services.

Interesting times ;-).