New Google Icon

I like it even better than the old one now, although I liked the old one just as much around this time in (4-5 days in), because the FIRST one was so bad. the thin borders gave me the experience of a graphics driver error or software imperfection.

But I don't know why they STILL didn't make it a 32-by-32 pixel icon, now it's ugly on my desktop with my XP 'Big Icons' setting. Google's bit-shaving and it's not always good. I had to make icons in Paint myself which have a white rectangle or square background (no transparent ) because I couldn't find any on the web. For Google Maps and Gmail I took icons from Google X.
Same for Google Reader. The only one that's okay is Google Docs.

Can't a 96-by-96 pixel icon be offered to Google Chrome's

It isn't pointless that the Windows flags & WMP icons, the eBay logo, the old Apple logo, Google's, Gmail's & Google Talk's logo and the Google Chrome, Desktop and Pack / Updater icons all use the 4-basic-colour scheme:
It's appealing, playful and, when done right, it doesn't get old as quickly as, say, the color scheme of Cuil.com

Or this site...

;-)

If you don't believe me, come tell me you don't think that Rubik's cubes & variants are appealing, playful and don't get old.