Do you like the new design of Google's Search engine results pages? It looks modern and clean, but I dislike having left column. It distracts my attention - not on the way like I want to see ads there ( this was for Google's biz dev team, not to interpreter my comments in a wrong way )

What do you think?

i like the new logo better

I personnaly hate the left bar they added. But google normally adjust in time and pretty quickly to whats better. I have no doubt any design is good if its made by google!

So far I like it, but I haven't done much searching since the change. It seems ok though.

Yes I like it very much!

I don't really pay that much attention to Google designs in general, simply because I know Google works.

It's okay. I actually thought about switching to Bing or Yahoo! for a bit, but didn't when I realized they weren't any better.

Bing is good! It worths to go there every day only to see what kind of photo they have chosen.

you just highlighted the reason why bing is the worst

when i type google.com in my browser, i'm looking for answers, and i'm looking for answers now

I don't quite know what to make of it yet. Been using it for a couple of days without much excitement, but I am pretty sure there is a lot more smarter algorithm behind the left navigation bar. It learns about your search processes the more you use and adapts for better information display.

For example, I would often use: regular and news search (last 24 hours, last week), as well as "define: keyword" search, and now I noticed most of the time it gets me all these results at the top for my searches, which saves me time.

But then again I might be completely wrong about what's taking place in reality.

Regardless, I don't mind the new look. It hasn't changed a lot and I am sure we will all get used to it with time. Design-wise, I've always thought Google was one of the worst companies when it comes to packaging products and services.

This left navigation bar pisses me off.
As such I have stopped using Google.

Until they provide an easy way to get rid of the left navigation bar I will use other providers.

Mike, that's quite radical! But an interesting experiment. Let us know if you find a better substitute to Google in terms of comfort and results.

There has got to be sites there that allow you to search multiple search engines at once with a simple interface. You pick search engines you want to search and they do the rest.

Dogpile.com is fine.
Google is convenient but I see no reason to support them when they make this kind of change without the option to opt out.

I'm not too sure if I like the search results as of yet, it was very clean before but now it has the extra side bar and the fonts seem a bit weird for me.

I do not like the new left bar, prefer it when everything is kept simple