Bing Goes With Clean & White Design

Bing announced a major redesign to their search interface.

This time Bing took out all the clutter and went incredibly minimalistic with their design. There is white everywhere. They removed the left hand rail from the search results. They said the design adds "faster page-load times and improved relevance under the hood."

Here is the before and after:

Old Design:

New Design:

A WebmasterWorld thread is talking about the new design. Some people love it and some people feel this is no big deal, all they did was clean up stuff and remove images and flare.

Your thoughts?

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.