Google is currently testing a new-look nav bar that replaces the standard blue underlined links with a much better looking, but subtle, toolbar. Your place in the navigation is now not only indicated by the darkening and bolding of the text, but also by a colorful band across the top of you position. For example, in the images you can see the blue bar on top of the “Web” area indicating you’re in a web search.

On the far right side you’ll notice a nice big “Sign in” button (with a subtle yellow bar on top of it), and a new settings icon next to that.

It’s not a huge change, but it’s a nice-looking one. Google has confirmed that they’re testing it but will only say the typical:

At any given time we are running 50-200 search experiments. You can learn more about search experiments on our blog: https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/04/this-is-test-this-is-only-test.html

I suspect this experiment is one that will see the light of day on google.com at some point in the future.

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Authors: MG Siegler

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