Recently, I’ve been using Bing. It is Live search revamped and improved 10x. It works with my queries in English language (but not so well in Spanish). Bing is great, but there was something I don’t like: the background picture. I don’t want a nice photo to unfocus myself, so I asked a friend who’s working on Bing and he gave me the following answer:
Click that link and Bing will use a plain background. No fluff, just stuff :)
To revert the image background:

Great stuff! :)