Experiencing mild disorientation while using Google today? Google has quietly rolled out a subtle redesign for its search results that, among other things, removes the age-old hyperlink underline, bumps the font size two points, and evens out the line spacing.

Google search results have gotten incremental changes over the years, and the search page certainly no longer looks like it did when the site first launched. Jon Wiley, the lead designer for Google search, took to Google+ Wednesday to say that the new look "improves readability and creates an overall cleaner look." Having gone nearly a decade without underlined hyperlinks, we here at Ars wholeheartedly agree with the decision.

The redesign moves Google up and away from competitors like Yahoo and Bing, which preserve the underline. However, it only catches Google up to the upstart DuckDuckGo, which does not use underlines and is cleaner still on its search results page, with truncated URLs for each result.

Google also recently started rolling out a new ad display format back in October that gives giant search result "sponsored" box ads to certain companies. At the time, Google said that the ads were a limited test, but it has not spoken further about the new format since the initial ad sightings.

Update: In reference to the large banner ads on search results, a reader tipped us to this SearchEngineLand post indicating that, as of Wednesday, "the test failed and is over."