One of the thing about Google is that it is very consistent. Going to Google.com hardly ever leads to confusion (unless there’s a Googlefail going on). Google has actually made aesthetic changes to its pages.
Revised logos are now part of Google properties like maps, news, and docs. While it’s not a huge change, I’d say it’s an improvement. There’s a clean style with a nice contrast of a thin font next to the now iconic Google logo. Most importantly, they are very readable.
Also notable, in the “Google docs” logo is an absence of the word “beta.” As many of us know, Google products are perpetually in beta. Is that by design or just an omission? Maybe Google will finally admit that their products aren’t beta anymore. Either way, it’s nice to see Google still moving forward even though they are a giant company.
Read [Official Google Blog]
It is odd they label GMail as beta still considering it's been available for ages now. You'd think it was an excuse for a buggy website, but it seems to work OK, so I think Google is just lazy.
On the updates front, they've updated the interface to Adwords, but it's still atrocious and incredibly slow. Even in Chrome, which is supposed to run Javascript so much faster (I don't see it).