The old icon looks more at home on Windows and Mac desktops. The new icon looks more at home among the other Google products. (http://www.google.com.au/intl/en

The old icon looks more at home on Windows and Mac desktops. The new icon looks more at home among the other Google products. (http://www.google.com.au/intl/en/options/ http://www.google.com.au/intl/en/options/) Whether there's any significance to this, I don't know.