Where did you get that weird google.com/#hl... link from? It broke in my browser (the redirect from google.com didn't take it in to account when it bounced me to google.co.uk), but I've not seen URLs like that for google.com before.

It's a normal Google url since Google started using ajax. I also get it when I go to google.co.uk and search for something.

See also here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=464393

Don't use this as a metric. The site:www.example.com syntax does NOT return all the pages in a site indexed by the search engine.

Google returns 20-26 pages (no idea where the variation comes from), but no matter what I do, I never find more than 9 pages in Bing's index with any query. Sure it's not exact science, but the difference is large enough to indicate a quality difference.

Another example: when I search for "vldtr is now a couple of months old" (from my post up there) Google returns this thread, Bing returns nothing.

Different metric, same result.