Google's new logo: Good, bad, or ugly?

[FPLOON]

Spoiler: Logo timeline and even the future!

Man the very first logo remind me of the 56k era and those safari(?) website layout sellers (the ones that everybody used when making their own fan sites).

...Now, I somehow miss the late-90s Google logos for some reason...

OT: Wait... you mean this truly is the new logo? What the fuck did they do with the "g"? Dammit, why can't I choose which logo I want to see on my google search screen the same way I have [REDACTED] and [REDACTED] as my search engine background? Custromization, yo!

Other than that, now I'm going to be waiting for it to turn itself into a "snake" and start reenacting the mobile game version of Snake when "you're not looking"...

 

[FalloutJack]

Google reminds me that "DALEKS HAVE NO CONCEPT OF ELEGANCE". I vote 'The Ugly'.

 

[Glexn]

The icon, blue and green should never be seen unless there's something in between.

The logo looks like it was drawn with crayons.

 

[vallorn]

It's certainly not the worst logo I've ever seen.

For those who don't know, that's the official London 2012 Olympics logo... It's a monstrosity.

There's also this logo for a sushi restaurant what's supposed to be a rising sun behind a japanese tea house... Yeah... It doesn't look like that I know:

Spoiler: spoiler for those at work just in case.

Spoiler: I warned you

But still. Taken on it's own... It's just... bland. I guess it fits with Google's downward trend from a technologist headed company to just another corporation with faceless, emotionless sociopaths running the board of directors. So good on them for that? But, yeah, it's somehow both bland, annoying and slightly straining on the eys with it's shapes and pastelish shades.

And good god the

is AWFUL.

 

[Rattja]

Liked the old one better, but it does not really bother me that much no matter what they do to it to be honest. Also it changes every time there is some kind of event (which is quite often) so meh..

What does bother me however is that someone out there somewhere probably got payed for making this thing and changing it.

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

I prefer the new one from an artistic standpoint; sharp curves and straight lines.

 

[Neurotic Void Melody]

Nonono, what terrible blandness is happening to thine eyes?? Make it stop! Ooglies or GTFO...

Spoiler: Some succulent snippets...

 

[Tayh]

I'm not too impressed, either. It just looks flat and generic.
At least the old one looked like it had some depth.

 

[Major_Tom]

I don't really care, but the tiny browser tab icon is different and that's fucking with me.

 

[bluegate]

Goes nicely with how they are designing their products for the past year and a half ( material design and such ), so yes, I like it.

 

[Vicarious Reality]

I don't like this weird flatness thing that everyone is going for now. Window's has been doing that lately too. Just this weird flat thing.

yup, ultra minimalistic rectangular design with boring pastel colors sure is futuristic

 

[Drathnoxis]

Uhh, is it different? I mean, the letters are all the same colours and it still just says Google, what are we supposed to be critiquing, the font?

The bigger change in my opinion was the change of the little icon that displays on tabs from:

To:

I don't really care since I barely use Google since they started their campaign to pester me into setting Google as my default homepage/search engine even though Google was already my default homepage/search engine.
Keeps making me wonder what webpage I have open for a second.