New Footer in Mobile Google Search

Google's mobile search results pages have a new footer. Pagination elements are now centered and there's a Google logo at the bottom of the page.

Here's how it looked before:

When I first noticed the big logo at the bottom of the page, I assumed it was a bug. The logo doesn't link to the homepage and that's strange. What do you think: is it a bug or a feature?

{ Thanks, Sterling. }