See that black bar on top of all Google pages? Remember they were changing it to something better?
Yes, it was promised on November 29 last year but it's nowhere to be found yet. This is becoming dangerously common: Google shows stuff (a.k.a. "promises"), then goes silent about it for a long long time (remember Google Music or Android@home projects?).
I don't like this dynamic. No one probably does. Not good for users, not good for Google.
They better start putting their shit together. There's no time for such idiot mistakes.