Google To Fix Bad Homepage UI? Please!

Valleywag posted this screenshot of a version of the Google homepage that is currently in testing:

Compare that with the current Google homepage, which, in an effort to appear spartan, has avoided redesign and resulted in inconsistent and confusing UI elements:

I hope to god Google makes this the default UI for the page, because the current one has gone too far. They keep trying to jam new features in there, and it really isn’t working. Isn’t Google the company that is supposed to care if things scale?
Next step: fix those links to the right of and below the search box. They never worked. I need a link to language tools every time I go to Google? Relegate most of this stuff to a dropdown and leave me alone.

Original post by Nathan Weinberg