[Aardwolf]

Change frightens me. 

[castor]

The sidebar is ok. It's effect on page (DL) size is minimal, it has nothing CPU intensive (works fine even on mobile devices), and most of us have screens with miles of space in horizontal direction anyway.

[Ghostavo]

To be honest, I pretty much prefer the sidebar to a topbar.

I've been waiting for them to change their layout for a long time, since most other search engines have long since implemented some sort of sidebar, not to mention it's superior usability wise.

[Mongoose]

I didn't notice it before now, but I can't say I care either way.  I'm used to sidebars on several websites I use, so it seems like an intuitive layout.  Might be handy to have filters in a more-accessible place than the top of the page.

[IceFire]

I hardly even noticed except that a few things were easier to get ahold of where they were a little more buried before. Looks like a good change and it isn't even that big of a change.

[Lukeskywalkie]

I only see the new UI half the time, as my main browser uses the "hl=xx-pirate" theme, and the search results are spit out in the same format as when that 'language' was implemented.

I'm getting used to the new layout, though - it's nice for widescreen users like me, but if I was still using a 4:3 (which I was, all of 2 months ago), I'd be pissed at the intrusion on real estate.  The top bar was fine.

I also hate the way youtube is changing the UI of its player every two minutes.

Ha! Seconded.

[Goober5000]

Would be annoyingly cool to see a searchengine with the UI of TS. All functions hidden behind buttons. With no tooltips.

TS?

[Rodo]

I must admit, I find it hard to get used to that new side bar.
Besides I can't find any interesting option in it.

Like Goob said, I liked the simplistic point of view Google had, If I wanted a prettier search page I would use Yahoo or Bing or.. whatever.

[S-99]

The side bar takes a while to load. I DON'T LIKE IT!
WTF is up with waiting for the side bar to load when i'm doing an image search and just want to switch from "all images" to "large images"? The previous was part of the webpage to change search preferences, now it's a separate process entirely, AND IT'S SLOW.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

* Androgeos Exeunt Googles "zero wing" and expands the sidebar.

I'm fine with it. The only issue I have is that I need to manually expand it for every search I make.

[castor]

The side bar takes a while to load. I DON'T LIKE IT!
WTF is up with waiting for the side bar to load when i'm doing an image search and just want to switch from "all images" to "large images"? The previous was part of the webpage to change search preferences, now it's a separate process entirely, AND IT'S SLOW.

Umm... what? I honestly can't tell any difference in speed compared to the old one.

[S-99]

Castor, it is slower because as opposed to changing search results being built into google pages, now changing search results is a separate loading process.

It might just be me. But, i believe others share my concern over the internet becoming less and less speedy by replacing the good working stuff with more bloat. Bull**** like 100% flash websites, javascript, overuse of graphics, and when flash became a video codec (i have no qualm with advertisements because those actually help websites). And the excuse for this stuff is that most everyone has broadband. And since most everyone has broadband, it's been content overload on the increase every year. But, when you have broadband and it still takes forever to load up a site, you totally know that the advertising of the broadband company for websites appearing instantly is false because of the additional bloat in todays sites.

[Klaustrophobia]

it's the ads that still are the slow points for me.  i don't generally hate the concept of advertising, but it has gotten WAY too expansive and invasive.  ads are ****ing everywhere now, and they just continue to get more and more annoying.  now you can't even watch a youtube video in peace.  some sites have video ads with sound you can't turn off, and of course the ad volume is 3x higher than everything else.   and of course the ads for scams are kindof funny when they pop up on legitimate websites.

[Enigmatic Entity]

Re: Google: I don't really mind the sidebar, but some of those options seems useless to me...

Re: Youtube: I like the new player interface, but the pop up ads that aren't telling you the name of the song are annoying, as well as the fact that there are no more ratings, and the comments are mixed up.

Re: MS Word 2007: The drawing and autoshapes are so much easier to use, and it doesn't try to make you destroy your LCD when you're trying to position things. I have to agree the new "picturesque" button layout is irritating.

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[castor]

It might just be me. But, i believe others share my concern over the internet becoming less and less speedy by replacing the good working stuff with more bloat. Bull**** like 100% flash websites, javascript, overuse of graphics, and when flash became a video codec (i have no qualm with advertisements because those actually help websites).

Yea, I agree with that generally. But it looks to me Google has not jumped into that boat, more like they have particularly tried to avoid that from happening when making the changes.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Re: Youtube: I like the new player interface, but the pop up ads that aren't telling you the name of the song are annoying, as well as the fact that there are no more ratings, and the comments are mixed up.

If you have an iPod Touch, you can word around this. Also available are some Greasemonkey scripts for Firefox that will NOT bring back the ability to give star ratings, but will instead show the aggregate rating of the video in question. Judging by the fact that these scripts still work on videos uploaded after April 1, I presume that all Google did was remove the two- to four-star options, changed the one-star option to Dislike, and changed the five-star option to Like.

Regardless, I will no longer rate any videos on YouTube until they bring the star ratings back, which is unlikely.

[The E]

Regardless, I will no longer rate any videos on YouTube until they bring the star ratings back, which is unlikely.

Take that, random person on the internet trying to grab attention by posting a vid on youtube! I shall punish you for Google's mistakes! Feel my wrath!

[Klaustrophobia]

i rarely used anything but 1 or 5 anyway.  i don't go randomly clicking around on videos, i only go straight to ones i want to see.  usually that ends up being 5, with the 1 thrown in when some retard has given a misleading title or done something like replace the audio with donkey noises. (yes that has happened)

[The E]

Which I think is why Google made that change.

[Klaustrophobia]

but i like seeing the "average" rating.  hell even being able to see ANY rating would be great, they don't show the likes/dislikes unless you vote.  i didn't do it for EVERY video either.