Here’s another example of Google playing around with it’s SERPs. In this particular example, I did a search on South Carolina Colleges, and you’ll see across the top – it is now showing me pictures from the most popular searched on schools in South Carolina. When you click on one of the images, it acts as a navigation bar – but changes your search query to the name of that school, and the subsequent SERP’s appear (as well as the AdWords placements). Originally I had thought the images were a result of the Google Places profile, but they appear to be some of the more popular image searches instead.
