If I'm reading you properly: "what Google is doing to its search results page, now, is what first drove me away from Yahoo search, when it was doing the same damned thing back in 1999".
Would that be accurate?
In this case, 30 words is worth more than a picture.
The real question is why were you using Yahoo search all this while :)
Haha, should have specified. This is why I quit using Yahoo search back in 1999.