TechCrunch is reporting today that Google is currently testing a new top nav bar throughout their website, bringing a subtle, but refreshed interface.
As you can see in the images below, 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.
Google has confirmed that they are indeed testing the new top nav bar, but also added in their usual response: that they're always testing 50-200 search experiments.
You can expect to see the new top nav bar on Google sometime in the future.
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