chiyo - 5:16 am on Jan 11, 2003 (gmt 0)

jd yes i agree to some extent. But I was probably expecting too much from the rebranding hence my view is more disappointment than anything else.

Agreed the SERPs range from acceptable to very good, freshing is great: the main problem is a continuing clutter problem mainly caused by the crud at the bottom (before the next page buttons), 2 banners for every SERP, and their directory categories on the front page, even though they take little time to downlaod and can easily be ignored gives a perception of being very spammy with some of those category titles.

The problem is that on first looks to a new user, it looks more of a shopping/commercial search than a Web search. Once you do a search, the actual sERPs are quite useful going to informative and relevant sites, but those banner ads do slow down loading time on my dial up laptop.