I did not see the sixth version of the panel on Habré. And here I went to Google to install on IE8 and saw. For those who are not yet aware of the existence of this version under the cut will tell about an interesting innovation. The new panel allows you to add (and does it by default) a google button on the taskbar for quick access to the search, with automatic suggestion of options. I think everything is clear from the screenshot. What is interesting, it seems that version 6 of the panel is available only for the IE browser.
I used it and I hasten to inform you that the panel is comfortable and, which is not unimportant, beautiful. It automatically collapses when it loses focus, and the presented results look better than in the search engine itself. And yet, for the panel in the taskbar, you can set a hot key. In general - offset.
PS: link to the panel for your browser (for ie - version 6) ')