Google Sports a New Table Based Look

Google appeared with a new look today for Indians (google.co.in). It sports a three column look with flexible center content column. It appears to be a limited trial, displaying only in certain regions.

It still uses html table for layout. It appears Google has decided not to join the CSS bandwagon or, as I repeatedly stress, have realized the limitations of CSS based page layout.

Google.com on the other hand still displays the old 2 column table based layout (advertisement bar is the right column). Surely table cannot be that bad for search engines as many CSS fanatics suggest.