Does Google need frills?

Lani wrote a good post about Google and Search Me the other day, but I'm wondering if Google needs to change their site. For search results I still like good results delivered straight. The moving web pages of Search Me are annoying-- I find them distracting.

Google's success has been their straight forward, no frills, delivery of good results.

I understand visual enhancements for sites -- I want my own site to be more visually pleasing (however, it delivers just fine the way it is), but sometimes that can be misleading and distracting. It might be me, but when I'm searching for information I want it delivered straight-up with no distractions.

I have started using Google in many ways -- note keeping, information management, documents, calendars, news source - and what I like is the plainness an simplicity of it. There are no distractions.