wheel - 2:33 pm on May 17, 2007 (gmt 0)

As a searcher, I really dislike this. If there's a lot of other folks who also dislike it, I wonder what the response will be? Suck it up? Move to a metasearch engine? Something else?

As an SEO'er however, up until this point there was only one way to the front page - rank in the top 10. Now there are multiple doorways onto the front page. This is good.

Kind of funny really, I see this as exactly the opposite of what Google likely intended (good for users, bad for optimizers).