Google holds their Searchology event to introduce new features, and this year there are a lot of new toys to play with now and in the near future. For example, now when you do a search, at the top of the page you will see a new link labeled "Show Options". Go ahead and click on it and try the new features. Be sure to check out the Wonder Wheel.

For more info on the Searchology event and more new features see this blog post: http://www.dullest.com/blog/google-searchology-2009-search-options-google-squared-rich-snippets/

My personal take is that although the "Show Options" info is cool, I wonder how many people will notice the new feature. Will Google eventually make this the default search? What is the impact of this new search on SEO as we know it?

The webmaster tools panel has a new layout as well

Hello.

I was playing about with these yesterday.

The wonder Wheel is good for broad searches you want to narrow down. I can see that being the most popular.

With the More text option, do you guys think that it will come from the Meta Description tag if there is more than when it truncates or will it just take from the first piece of text the robots come across in the main body.

Overall these features are good and i like the fact they have kept it optional so you can use them when you think you need them, not when Google does!

There certainly is nothing 'wonderful' about it!! The bastards! They even made it rainbow colours to make us think it was something better than it actually is.