This did bring to mind the new Yahoo program bd referenced. While apps in the search results is an interesting idea I don't think you're going to get Google to do this. It could, however, be an interesting idea for a startup. Build it to work with existing 'widgets' or Facebook apps and you would have a group of apps to start with.
You would have to have some way to track and determine relevance for apps but it could be really interesting. It might even be an actual USE for OpenID if each app pulled your credentials from OpenID, or directly from the search engine, you wouldn't have to worry about making a new login for every app that showed up in a search result.
You would have to have some way to track and determine relevance for apps but it could be really interesting. It might even be an actual USE for OpenID if each app pulled your credentials from OpenID, or directly from the search engine, you wouldn't have to worry about making a new login for every app that showed up in a search result.