Too noisy. With all the extraneous stuff on the page, I keep misreading the name as Bling. Fast though. At least they understand that much about why Google won. It's funny to think that after all the engineering expertise that must have gone into this, they're going to lose because of UI design.
I personally like the way they integrated the "advanced" search box in the results page. It actually makes it easy to do an advanced search. Neither Yahoo nor Google has this. Combined with the impressive speed, I think it stands a chance.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/more-search-options-a...
Heh, I love how Microsoft is running a Google ad on "search options" that points to Bing.