Well, if your search engine is not that good, you may as well make it look pretty. Microsoft has put a new look on their, now, default IE home page at live.com. Niall Kennedy blogged about this today and I have to say it looks pretty slick. I am a big fan of clean, non-cluttered layouts. Now that they have a pretty front-end for MSN Search, maybe they can make it into a good search engine?