I am extremely disappointed with the new-fangledness in the newer Google interface changes.
The 'instant' search is just a jarring user experience in the way it does massive unpredictable updates to the screen at every keypress. Even worse is the new image search results screen - mouseover on any image makes the search field lose focus, it even does this when fetching the first page of results, so you have to click the search field again every time you do a search.
Even the suggestion search field they introduced a few years ago was a dubious value proposition - I personally got better value from the standard text field's 'previous entries' than from the suggestions.
The 'instant' search is just a jarring user experience in the way it does massive unpredictable updates to the screen at every keypress. Even worse is the new image search results screen - mouseover on any image makes the search field lose focus, it even does this when fetching the first page of results, so you have to click the search field again every time you do a search.
Even the suggestion search field they introduced a few years ago was a dubious value proposition - I personally got better value from the standard text field's 'previous entries' than from the suggestions.