The new Google Universal Search feature combines the company’s ability to find results from relevant websites, books, videos, news, maps and books. It is set up to play to the strength of the Google search engine.

It is, however, more complicated than the older version of Google, and harder to use. It also makes finding relevant website results more difficult. For those who use search engine to find webpages, this will be a drawback. The idea makes sense on paper, but regular Google customers may not take to it.

Douglas A. McIntyre