Google 'messy interface'

Google are renown for clean lines in all of their applications particularly their start page; So can any one explain this new strategy to me?

Are peoples short term memories so short that we jumped away from the Yahoo's of the world to seek purity in the all knowing all clean algorithm of the mighty Google?

(btw if you are going to pick a home page design - definitely go for the Mark Ecko design).


Cheers,
Dean