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Google's simplistic search results page is arguably one of the reasons the search giant succeeded in what was, at the time, a crowded search market. But if you have a large monitor the Google search results page is a waste of screen real estate, forcing you to scroll down a whitespace-heavy page.
If this situation annoys you, and you use Firefox, you can change Google to display two columns thanks to the [Two Column Google][1] Greasemonkey script (screenshots after the jump).
The Two Column Google script displays Google results in rows rather than one long column. However, rather than the results being sorted into two columns (like a newspaper), this script organizes the results into a table that reads left to right.
I would probably prefer two columns like a newspaper, but this is still better than the default Google search results page. If you've got a really big monitor and know your way around some Javascript you could change the number of columns to suit your needs.
Naturally Two Column Google requires Firefox with the [Greasemonkey extension][3] installed.
[via [Google Operating System][2]]
[1]: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/8477 "Greasemonkey: Two Column Google (row-wise)"
[2]: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/05/google-search-results-displayed-in.html "Google Search Results, Displayed in Columns"
[3]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748 "Greasemonkey"
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