[mvandemar]

Actually, I was wrong. The results are US only, so (for now, anyways) you can view what the results looked like before the update by changing the language parameter (&hl=) or the &gl= parameter in the url. For instance, pre-algo rankings (Mahalo #1):

http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&safe=off&...

Same query after the update (Mahalo at #7):

http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&safe=off&...

[gregable]

There are other confounding effects when you change the language parameter. Consider, for example, the query [bank] using your method:

http://www.google.com/search?gl=en&q=bank bankofamerica.om bankfashion.co.uk

http://www.google.com/search?gl=it&q=bank wikipedia.org bancaditalia.it