I'm also going to make this comment via the form, but I want to make it here anyway, because it's something that's very slowly starting to bother me.
I've noticed that lately, Yahoo! and in their preview engine MSN have adopted the Google "look and feel" for their results, right down to the colours. While I do find the results on Yahoo! to be more relevant than that of Google's (the jury's still out on MSN since it's in beta), I do find it somewhat annoying that they "look" the same. Why not use some different colours (reds, lighter blues, oranges, anything as long as it's different). Personally, I've always been a big fan of the
All the Web scheme. It's relatively non-standard, and it's still clean.
Perhaps you could also use the newer Verdana or Tahoma as the default font, degrading backwards accordingly? This would again serve to distinguish your look and feel without throwing off the whole concept of search too much.
Here's something else from us Great White Northerners up in Canada:
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=Tor...t&cop=mss&tab= <--- Yahoo.com search.
http://ca.search.yahoo.com/search/ca...nto+web+design <--- Yahoo.ca search.
Not only is the look and feel different (in IE6 anyway), but the results are as well (the jrgraphix.net one disappears for some reason in the .ca). I'm not sure if the latter is caused by them not having a listing somewhere in a Canadian section of the Yahoo! directory or not, however, so I'm not necessarily pointing out the latter as a flaw; it's just something I observed, and I really am trying to be constructive (I just don't do a very good job of it.)
As far as the shortcuts go: while they're nice, a lot of them are US-only, and it would be nice to see some of them (patent search, for example) extended to Canada at the very least. I'd suggest any of the other G7 countries would be good to put in as well.