There has just been some short discussion about the result pages in the style topic.
This is a new topic for collecting ideas (post your own ideas if you have them) regarding the look and feel of the result pages and getting feedback on these ideas.

Links on the side turned into sidebar/corner:
The links on the side of the result pages containing links to various pages and !bang searches don't move when you scroll and feel like they are 'hanging'.

This could be solved by visibly separating the links from the rest of the page and/or attaching them to an edge of the page. This would result in something like a sidebar or corner (quick mockups).

The links could also be made to scroll with the page, which is what I would prefer (The search box moves with the page, and the links will always feel a bit attached to the search box).

New icons:
The current icons for the side links are a bit blurry and there are better sets out there. If you know a good set or have an opinon regarging icon styles, reply in here. We also have to consider the licensing issue (Some licences wouldn't allow use on DDG).

Change topic and meaning lists:
Sometimes I just want to do a quick web search and don't feel like scrolling through a long text or clicking on the [web links] link. It would be nice if DDG limited how many topics or meanings are shown and displaying a message if they are too many.
If the user then decides to browse topics/meanings, display these lists in an expanded state until the search is edited manually (insert a parameter in the links to check this).

Lastly, I can see how complicated the code for the results page is and find things which could be removed or rewritten and retain their style (not sure how the javascript would be affected). But maybe I shouldn't start poking around in that.

(I'm sorry for wasting Mr. Weinberg's valuable time once more)