ignoring all mandatory marketing gobbledygook, this change makes most sense to me in the light of google&#x27;s recent involvement in the NSA scandal, and their general shift from being a search only service, to being a true conglomerate, especially spanning the futuristic fields of robotics and AI research. They don&#x27;t want to be like the dystopian AI from the recent movie Ex Machina, they don&#x27;t want to be seen as the omnipresent creepy spy company. Therefore this naive, happy and care free logo. Vulgar in my eyes. Most people in this thread seem to miss this?