Google's Black Top Navigation Bar Making A Return?

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:

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

@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:

• Google's Black & Gray Design Is Here To Stay
• Google Tests Black Bar
• Google Goes Gray With New Design Test
• Here Come The White Google Navigation Bar Complaints...
• Google Tests Boxy Navigation Bar
• Goodbye Black Google Bar, Welcome Google Drop Down Menu
• Google's Top Down Navigation Design Going Global
• Google Changes Navigation Bar Again
• Google Testing Another Top Bar Navigation Look
• Google Testing New Alternative Search Navigation Links
• Google To Launch New Top Navigation: White Top & Box Bar
• Google White Bar & App Launcher Official, As Expected...

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