Better Google Logo (dribbble.com)

How so?

It's trite, overly-simplistic and limits Google's scope to that of mere search.

Looks like it's been set in Gill or Johnson too, which tends to imply British origins, which Google.. er.. very much isn't.

Gqogle? The first O makes it look too much like a Q. Not really going to fly.

I'm tired of seeing everything flat, specially in Microsoft (and most going along the same way)

Hmm, this has an interesting effect on me. I can't really point to anything I don't like about it. But it's really unsettling.

I think it's an analog to the uncanny valley effect. It's too close to something familiar to me (Google's actual logo) that it's slightly off-putting.

But trying to ignore that, I think it's alright, though agreed it's appealing to the flat fad.