Google Suggest

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I voted that Google's Suggest be turned off by default. Primarily my reasoning it that filter editors (and users in general) may need to stay on top of what Google's doing. It seems to me they're merging more tracking processes, maybe inheriting some of Doubleclick's antics.

Recently I've noticed a couple of things about their search results:

1) In my Opera and IE (but not Firefox), there's a new image tracker (new to me anyway) at the bottom, just before the xjs script. I put "xxx" where a longer identification string representing me was:

Code:

<script type="text/javascript">(new Image()).src="http://id.google.com/verify/EAAAABD-xxx.gif";</script><noscript><img src="http://id.google.com/verify/EAAAABD-xxx.gif" height=1 width=1 alt=""></noscript>

2) Where is the /BODY and /HTML for search results? They're totally missing in my Opera and IE, but present in Firefox. Google is breaking common standards when injecting crud into the results.

If their Suggest is allowed, then maybe a lot of people won't realize the desire to react to some other future changes.