Bing Cleans Up Its (Results) Act

This is a huge improvement. I hope they keep the "left rail" clear in the future. It feels like I'm using a Readability plugin on the search results. Very focused.

I hope that they reclutter the page. I don't like the new "look". I miss having my recent searches displayed where I can just click one without having to recall what i typed in, or search through my history.

I wish they used better formatting that is more Metro-like. The links at the top certainly fit, but the text results don't. What happened to all of this standards work on getting embedded fonts to work cross-platform so that we can use Segoe or other classic 20's-30's typefaces like Futura? (I've always liked Broadway Engraved, but then I've always found Art Deco stuff appealing, like the images of the Automats from the first half of last century like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFCDxY9xwd8 ) Which reminds me: I wish Microsoft would lay down some standards of their own on how to format text "the Metro way". They don't have static definitions on how menu bars, headers, paragraphs, and such, are all to be formatted to fit a unifying design. Instead it's just "use Segoe UI in various weights", and we can see this in how the formatting for their web pages, Windows 8, and Windows Phone all have subtle changes in them with no real uniformity other than a fairly loose definition of tiles, vector icons, and photos. Even the flat colour look doesn't come up on the Xbox 360 with the background having a spotlight-style gradient. Of course, this translates out to the (lack of) Metro design esthetic that has crossed over to Aero in Windows 8, but that's another beast altogether.