Google's Black Top Navigation Bar Making A Return?

Jul 16, 2014 - 8:09 am 5 by
Filed Under Misc Google

Google is constantly testing things from new algorithms that we cannot directly see, to the user interface that we do directly see. In a recent Google test, Google is showing the old top navigation bar, in black.

Here is what you should normally see, no top black bar:

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Here is what Google is testing, that thin black top navigation bar:

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@HydrophobicDuck shared these photos with me, saying he is seeing the new top bar randomly.

Google has tested the top navigation bar a crazy amount of times. Here are a select few of what we've covered in the past on these tests:

Forum discussion at Twitter.

 

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