Compared to Cuil, yes. But I still like the layout of Yahoo!'s normal search. Whose idea was it that stacked results didn't work for conveying amounts of information?
Stacked results are what work best.
But Cuil had to make themselves look visually inovative, just to be considered 'diferent' from Google. If not journalists would say that they were equal to Google/Yahoo - no matter how better, or worse, the technology and search results.
Even, as it is the case, the UI doesn't help the user.
