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How about rolling it back to about 2008 before they started copying Bing's look and feel.

I finally turned off javascript for all google domains except gmail, cannot stand it anymore.

ps. if you want to do the same, try YesScript plugin, much lighter than NoScript

How is that “like Bing”? I just signed into Bing to test this and, well, this is how their topbar looks:

http://s.deno.pl/bingbar

If anything, it's Bing's topbar resembling Google Search rather than the other way around. And, mind you, Google started pushing their online profiles[1] some while ago—it was only a matter of time until they integrate it better with their main product.

[1] http://www.google.com/profiles

Care to explain what exactly you can not stand anymore?

For me it's the fact that 9 times out of 10 it just wastes time. I want to do a search for these keywords, I don't want suggestion, I don't want preview, I don't want a selection of related pictures, please get out of my way, thanks.

The secure version at https://www.google.com/ has less of the crap that the insecure version has, like the preview stuff. Alternatively, there's always https://ssl.scroogle.org/

Yes encrypted.google.com is really fast, it even has google instant, but I had to turn it off as my default choice in chrome because it won't let you search images. Video and news work but not images.

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