"Services" is a generic term, of limited benefit in guiding the user. Here it includes search applications, a link to the lab, and a text messaging element. The other major category "Tools" is buried below the fold.

"Weather" is buried one level down while "News" is directly on this page. Is the rationale for this that "Google News" is an application and not a search hack? This functional distinction is of limited importance to a user seeking weather information who must now forage to find the link.

The "Advanced Search" and "Preferences" links that were on the Home page have been lost.
"Help" is in a nonstandard location. User must hunt.
This page is essentially more "More". A large amount of functionality is hidden behind this link. Users would benefit from seeing these functional elements grouped by task.
The "Google Tools" section is below the fold and many users will miss it. Subcategories are again manifestly arbitrary. Consider that "Local for Mobile" is a Tool, as is "Gmail", but "GMail for Mobile" is a Service - yet it is not under the "Services" section of this page. There we have only "Mobile".
Advertisers and site owners must go to the page gutter to find information targeted towards them on this page.
The slight benefit this white space provides in focusing attention on the subsequent text is outweighed by its costliness by pushing critical information out of sight.
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