Google has launched a new non-Google branded site called SearchMash which is designed to serve as an experimental testing ground for user interface ideas without the Google brand skewing the objectivity of the results.
Here are 14 observations on SearchMash:1. The character count on the SearchMash homepage is even less than the Google.com classic homepage.2. With SearchMash, there is no search button but there are instructions to ‘hit enter to get results’ but those directions disappear on the search results page. I always hit ‘enter’ myself versus clicking the “Google Search” More»

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