Google experimenting new search views to Improve Perfection Another improvement occurred within the Google Search Result view. They put some new appearance inside Google Search. As we can see it, the normal and constant view for this is the 10 or so web pages in a vertical list. But now they’ve added some extra search result views. "This lets you visualize your search results in new ways, and we'd like to highlight some of the features we've recently added." Map View Map View plots some of the key locations contained in your web results onto a map. Timeline view Timeline view does the same thing as map view, but for dates found on the web. This includes dates of upcoming or historic events, or even biographical information -- all generated automatically from your search results. Info view Info view is a bit different. It doesn't dramatically change the visualization of results; web pages are still displayed vertically as usual. Now you'll notice a new control panel on the right side of the page Read more here: Google Experimental Search Results Page and here [URL="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/01/introducing-new-search-views.html" ]Introducing new search views[/URL] Please post your comments and views on this interesting change which Google is looking forward to...
Its currently not rolled out to public and still not graduated from the labs. So NO this doesn't affect your current ranking or search results. I am a beta user of experimental search.