But don't get too excited - if you didn't know it was different you would simply think it's the same old Google as it acts in pretty much the same way.
The company has dubbed the new search engine "caffeine".
Look-wise, the new engine doesn't appear different, but its developers hope that the technology they have used will noticeably index new content faster.
Google engineers are said to have invited web developers to test the new search engine, and give their feedback.
Matt Cutts, a principal engineer at Google, and Sitaram Iyer, a staff software engineer, have posted an entry on the company's webmaster central blog, appealing to developers to try the newly improved service and send them some feedback.
A Google spokesperson added: ""Google is always working on new technologies to improve the quality of our search services. We hope this new system will improve search in the areas of speed, accuracy, and comprehensiveness."
So is it any faster? It’s hard to tell. Most results on Google are already so fast, that shaving a nanosecond here or there hardly seems to matter. By Google’s own counter (which show up along the top of every Google result page next to the number of results), the results are mixed. Sometimes Caffeine wins, sometimes regular old Google wins.
But reading Google’s statement, it seems that by “indexing speed” they may mean the speed at which they index pages behind the scenes, putting them in the results. It’s difficult to test that immediately, it seems like something you may start to notice over time as content comes in faster.
One thing I do notice is that across the board, Caffeine seems to have more results in its index than regular Google does. But it’s hard to tell if that really matters since most people never get to the end of the millions of results for items (and for most, in fact, you can’t).
If you're a Power Googler, then head on over to http://www2.sandbox.google.com/ and start feeding back.
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