For me it's the fact that 9 times out of 10 it just wastes time. I want to do a search for these keywords, I don't want suggestion, I don't want preview, I don't want a selection of related pictures, please get out of my way, thanks.
Yes encrypted.google.com is really fast, it even has google instant, but I had to turn it off as my default choice in chrome because it won't let you search images. Video and news work but not images.
