If only this was because the are going to launch another product to take on ebay/paypal.

But sadly it's likely not.

<rant>And for the love of $deity|!$deity please stop screwing with menu interfaces on all your products, Google, unless you can give us an option to get the old one back.

The new gmail interface today requires two clicks (and a "hidden" menu) to logout. Are they trying to get people to accidentally stay logged into their google account? What about on shared computers? "Logout" should ALWAYS be a clearly visible link.</rant>

I don't know what you're talking about, in the upper right of my gmail is "sign out" ... and that's what it does.