I don't know if this is just me or what...but I just noticed a new design that I been getting in search pages and the google home page. I was searching for Cursors And then that came up. But I noticed this before for a while, but never though of anything about it. This looks like what they might be rolling out in the future. Looks really cool to me, to be honest. I like the new logo. Sorry, didn't get a better look but it's a lot more shiny and more clean and more bubbly looking. Also the other major thing I noticed was, when it dissappeared, look at the results for the same search keyword. The SERPS are different. Different design, different SERPS....weird.
like it as well, they always change the logo though, when u go to say .co.uk they always have different styles like when its Halloween they put pumpkins etc...
It's true that they change the logo always, but the default logo has always looked that for a while now. The new shiny logo, does look better IMO.
Haven't seen that new layout, but it's kind of redundant, isn't it? There are links at the top and another on the left panel. I like the old layout, though. It's clean and the links doesn't interfere with the results.