Awsome. I was just thinking about some of those features. Being able to search more than on url with one search is what I was looking for. edit: Wait... I don't see an option to manually enter the background color... Looks like there's no more option to have the search button read "Google Search", get rid of the muti-colored 'google' logo, and choose your own background color. I won't be using the improved search.
i've been waiting for this! i noticed that they first launched the "new search" a couple weeks back, but there was an error on the page that didn't let you grab the actual code to implement it. anyway, i think it's a big improvement! the code is clean, you can pick only the sites you want to search, no radio buttons below the search box, no more giant "google search" button. i'm sold....
ok so basically some adsense publishers that implement this will lose out on some clicks, and the user will be in and out of their site faster? yeah ok, no thank you, you can have it.