One thing that makes Google great is the ability to search for non-html files, especially PDFs. Today, Google added the option to view PDFs in the browser without the need to load Adobe Reader. The PDF reader is different that the old ‘View as HTML’ option in that it retains formatting. Sounds cool, and it is sure to make searching for PDFs faster.

>> Quickly view formatted PDFs in your search results (Official Google Blog)

Recently we posted about the change with google layouts, I suspected there might be something more. It looks like Google’s doing some tweaking. The search box on the front page has been made bigger. I don’t like it – just make it an option Google! We suspect a greasemonkey script has already been written.

>> Google (official google blog post on the subject)
>> As promised, the greasemonkey script (userscripts.org)