Yesterday Google announced its Universal Search initiative, which integrates search results from all of Google’s web properties and projects into the main search results page of Google.com. Instead of only seeing text-based search engine results or having to go to the separate portals for image, news, or video search, users will now be seeing the most relevant results for a search query regardless of its format. So, searching on Steve Jobs will not only bring up the most valid text-based search results, but you’ll also see images, news snippets, and video - all embedded within the standard search results listings.

Lots of feedback on the announcement throughout the Internet. We’ll be following up with further posts of the ramifications of Universal Search later.