Sergey Alakov spotted a new Google hotel search results test, this one with the hotel highlight icons triggering overlays on top of the listing. This way when you click on a highlight icon, it shows you more details and you can swap to see more highlights or X out of the highlight view all together.

Here is a screen shot Sergey posted on Twitter:

He posted many more details and many more screen shots on his blog.

I am not sure which interface I like better, but they both work well.

Forum discussion at Twitter.