I don't love it. I don't exactly hate it, but it's one of those minor annoyances that's getting thrown on top of the "Google search is getting worse and worse". I don't like having the text i'm typing and the screen it's on appear to rapidly change while I'm typing it. It's a feeling of as if I either need to type faster to keep up with all of that, or try to read really quickly in case there's some intermediate page that's actually what I want popping up there. Really, I wouldn't mind going back to that blank page.
What I really hate is having a bright blue box that looks important distract me every time I search now saying "Don't you love us? Please tell us you love us!" I do not. I do not want that when my main goal is just to type a few words in and hope you don't think I'm a fucking moron because I just spelled 'literal' as 'littoral'. I don't need this when there's somewhere else I can go. They might wonder if I'm a moron too, but they aren't as aggravatingly insistent that even after I told them twice, I probably didn't want it anyway. Google used to do that, too, back when it was the only game in town and there was no need for anyone else to come along.
I don't quite get it. Suddenly there's real competition and Google search starts looking like a pile of junk. It's worse and worse every day. Lately half the time the dropdown box gets stuck, sitting there blocking the first search result, you know, the one that Google used to get almost magically correctly relevant, and I have to actually click again to get it. Screw it, I'll live with the slightly less pertinent results if I don't get a bright blue box.
Also, you need fucking fix Image search if you want people to use it. Trying to get to the second or third page by randomly scrolling so that the other 29 pages try to get populated is not working. And I can't imagine what that's like for a slower internet connection. Not that it matters, Bing is kicking your ass in image search right now.