New Design

[textex]

Kind of cheesy and primitive imo.

[rustybrick]

What are you talking about? I don't see a new design at Ask.com....

[BillyS]

I looked too after seeing this post. Looks pretty clean to me.

[kevinpate]

Of course it's kept quite minimal.
They wanted very little around that might collect up dust after they retired Jeeves. :)

Looks fine from here. As they power search at a portal I frequent, I use their results from time to time. Not shabby, not shabby at all, at least in the areas I check out.