Blogger ads the navbar

It's supposed to replace all the ad banners on the blogspot sites, but you can add it (as I have done) to your own ftp hosted sites. It also comes in your choice of four colors: blue, tan, black, gray.
According to Valette, who's comment I found on feeling listless ("It's not a horrible idea -- offering an accessible Google search of the site but it somehow reduces the things individuality. It feels like this is part of some larger network rather than my own work.") [via Waxy] it seems that blogspotters may also have a choice in the matter:

Valette: it looks like you could hide it with some css properties. the source shows the search bar is inside a [div id="b-navbar"]... so you could add #b-navbar {display: none;} to your css to hide the bar.

Try it out and let me know.