The Mountain View search engine appears to be testing a new version of its homepage, according to a Valleywag tipster. Health warning: we've had no second sighting yet. Anyway, if genuine, it's a significant revision of the Google front door. In a navigation strip across the top of the page, Google arrays its different search engines, for content such as video and news. And, for the first time, Google includes offerings other than search on the front page. Mountain View's highly popular web mail service is listed in the strip, and other services such as the online calendar are easily available in a dropdown. The screenshot, below.

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