Thing is though, Google is already in a lot of the services that Facebook wants to expand into or improve upon. Voice Chat, E-Mail, Video Streaming, Document Sharing etc.
I think if they really go all out, they could create a pretty good nexus to join together all of their individual services with the whole social sharing idea.
They've already got a much larger than expected number of users, not to mention nearly half of my friends on Facebook are talking/trying to get in to Google+.
I know that it has broken the google search. That black bar at the top of the site is uglier than Evander Holyfield's digested ear, and if you use the quick search in your browser and then choose another category you get 0 results and have to repeat the search.
Uglier I kinda agree. The second problem doesn't happen for me though? Which browser's quick search are you using?