[edwinnathaniel]

From TC: "Other tools, like Patent Search, are being integrated into the main Google experience."

From Google's own announcement: "We're redirecting the old Patent Search homepage to google.com to make sure everyone is getting the best possible experience for their patent searches. Over the past few months, we've been making updates and improvements to the Patent Search functionality on google.com—not only are you able to search the same set of U.S. patents with the same advanced search options, the new experience loads twice as fast as the old Patent Search homepage, contributes to a unified search experience across Google, and sports Google Doodles as well. The team looks forward to including patents from other countries soon, and will be rolling out additional features to Patent Search on google.com in the future."

Please re-read the whole announcement.

Oh and I don't think I see anywhere Google+ being mentioned....