As usual, Google decided to use me as a guinea pig in their quest for interface perfection. What do you think of this new design, http://imagebin.ca/view/xIfOEwuQ.html I personally hate it.
You sure you don't have a userscript or plugin installed? I don't think this is something Google would ever do...
Nope, no user scripts or plug-ins. This is the second time this has happened in the past few days. Once it happens it'll be consistently like that for all my searches in that browser for the hours following. I inspected the source a bit and it definitely seems like an intentional structure. I was shocked too..