Agree - What were they thinking with the news page, it's went from one of my first check general news aggregators to near last check?
Their redesigned image search is awesome though!
Yeah, I've been waiting for them to copy Bing's design for image search for a while now. Bing's was so much better, it had to happen some time. I'm just glad it didn't take longer.
To me, this behavior solidifies further Google's transition into the Microsoft of the 90's role. I guess that puts them at 2020 for being virtually completely removed from innovation and fully in the role of a differentiation defeater.
Microsoft could turn around and so could Google, but it's very hard when they're so established that short-term risk to profits becomes a major concern.