Google, Web Design | featured news

Google is apparently testing cleaner-looking results pages. Overall, the new design looks less cluttered. Rows of text are spaced farther apart and text colors are more muted than previous versions.Compared to the darker, tighter text of the old results pages, the change is pretty stark and will take some getting used to, if Google decides to roll out these changes to all users.

Every day, 268 million people use Google Inc. tools to search for something. The query goes in, the company's software programs, called spiders, crawl the Web, and deliver back the most relevant links.

Google Sites, a service that lets you create and collaborate on a simple webpage, as well as embed documents, photos, videos into it, was visually a bland affair…until now.

The Internet giant's search engine could make Web site design and navigation obsolete.