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Hester - 10:02 am on Aug 27, 2008 (gmt 0)
I think they could also be doing this to show off the large numbers listed in the drop-down results. "Beat those Microsoft and Yahoo!" Now the competition will be to display inflated hits next to each search by various misleading methods.
Not seen on the UK home page of Google yet, so I tried the US page. I see there's a CLOSE link at the bottom of the drop-down menu. Just click on that to turn off the feature for the current search.