Heh. I disagree with you on both counts. Guess it goes to show how varying individual tastes are.
I like the blue buttons. They're very playful, which is what Google wants. I also like that they don't look like ordinary OS X buttons on the Mac anymore. They're tasteful blues, not particularly tacky. I also like the border colors of the search bar.
However, the sidebar seems cluttered to me. The design seems cramped, and I hate the whitespace between the highlighted option and the 1px blue bar on the right. Something also seems off with the top/bottom padding vs. the font size on those buttons. Overall the site feels more cramped and less quietly useful than early Google with its single row of links.
I agree with you on the logo, though. I also like where the "About 128,000,000 results (0.35 seconds)" is positioned, as well as the Advanced Search placement. So half really good, half bleh.
I like the blue buttons. They're very playful, which is what Google wants. I also like that they don't look like ordinary OS X buttons on the Mac anymore. They're tasteful blues, not particularly tacky. I also like the border colors of the search bar.
However, the sidebar seems cluttered to me. The design seems cramped, and I hate the whitespace between the highlighted option and the 1px blue bar on the right. Something also seems off with the top/bottom padding vs. the font size on those buttons. Overall the site feels more cramped and less quietly useful than early Google with its single row of links.
I agree with you on the logo, though. I also like where the "About 128,000,000 results (0.35 seconds)" is positioned, as well as the Advanced Search placement. So half really good, half bleh.