Google, through its company blog announced that it has decided to start rolling out the revamped Google Bar. “It’s time to unify, simplify and say goodbye to the navigation bar,” Google says in a video introducing its new Google bar. The horizontal black bar at the top of the page with links to Web, News, and Images is now history. Users will now instead have three tools that will stay static across the top of their page: a Google drop-down menu on the left under Google’s logo, a search bar in the center, and Google+ tools on the right. The Google menu opens vertically on rollover and includes the links formerly listed in the black horizontal bar. It will be available even when users are not signed in to an account.
The rollout is occurring now, and the new set of tools is expected to be available to all users in the next couple of days. Earlier this month Google unveiled a revamped Google Reader, along with a new interface for its e-mail service.
