Google has recently announced
a new interface
that hides the navigation menu until you mouse over the logo. If you'd
like to try to interface before, you can edit your Google cookie and use
some values that trigger the new UI.
If you use Chrome, Firefox, Safari or Internet Explorer 8+, open
google.com in a new tab, load Chrome's JavaScript console
(Ctrl+Shift+J), Firefox's Web Console (Ctrl+Shift+K), Safari's Web
Inspector (
how to do that?) or IE's Developer Tools (press F12 and select the "console" tab) and paste the following code:
document.cookie="PREF=ID=03fd476a699d6487:U=88e8716486ff1e5d:FF=0:LD=en:CR=2:TM=1322688084:LM=1322688085:S=McEsyvcXKMiVfGds;
path=/; domain=.google.com";window.location.reload();
Then press Enter and close the console. If you're not in the US and
you're using a different Google domain, replace ".google.com" with your
domain in the code (for example: ".google.co.uk" in the UK). Please note
that this only works for the English interface, so you many need to
adjust the language in
the preferences page.