Want to preview the latest Google prototype test and not be part of the elusive Google Wave party? Now you can with a simple javascript.

Just paste the following into the address bar of your browser when on google.com and hit enter, you should find yourself as new participant of Google’s latest and more all-encompassing prototype test – the one with a new logo, buttons, and always-visible left-hand pane in results. Note that you would need to sign out of Google Services first for this to work.

javascript:void(document.cookie=”PREF=ID=20b6e4c2f44943bb:U=4bf292d46faad806:TM=1249677602:LM=1257919388:S=odm0Ys-53ZueXfZG;path=/; domain=.google.com”);

If you did it right, you should see something like the following:

The new design certainly looks a lot like how Bing is displaying their search results:

Seems like Google is wary at the effectiveness of it after Bing stole a small percentage of market share from them.