Yuk! From the screenshot above, my first impression was that it looked like a spammy low-quality site such as eHow! The white space makes it seem like the content is disjointed a bit too much.

Thanks for posting, I’ve not come across anything like that yet! Fingers crossed that it doesn’t arrive :)

have you noticed them using the display url’s after the title recently too..cant help but think that this all looks a bit scrappy?

All seems pretty horrible, as screens get bigger it doesn’t mean we need white space everywhere.

it really doesn’t look good. Google seem to be trying to maximise revenue by placing more white space and making the 1st serp’s longer with more ads.

Google have a habit of over-trying everything and, rather annoyingly changing things which dont need to change – this included!!

I think it looks cleaner but CTR taking too much space at the top, not sure if I want that, probably not.