Goodbye Black Google Bar, Welcome Google Drop Down Menu

Nov 30, 2011 - 9:42 am 25 by
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New Google BarGoogle announced their new top navigation changes. It includes dropping the Google black bar launched in June of this year and replacing it with a white top, Google logo with navigation drop down and Google + sharing features.

So instead of navigating to the other Google services at the top bar, you mouse over the Google logo and click on the drop down menu. Here is a bigger look at that, with the "more" section expanded.

New Google Bar

Here is the full length top bar, with the profile information and Google + sharing features:

New Google Bar

Google started testing this in late October and I guess they like the results so decided to keep it.

Here is a video demo:

Do you like it?

Forum discussion at Google Blogoscoped Forums.

 

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