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Google Logo Changes Again, Hinting RT Search?
siliconbits writes "The Google homepage is sporting a new logo that changes color as you type, and it is likely a big hint as to what the company will announce at its search event on Wednesday. When you arrive on the search giant homepage today, you will be greeted with a gray Google doodle."
It doesn't do it on the https page...
http://www.google.com/ isn't working for me, but http://www.google.co.uk/ is.
They experimented yesterday to when the logo was a group of balls that was repeleld by the mouse. Canvas/JS i suppose.. I'm only seeing this on the co.uk-page, not .com nor .se which is my home TLD.
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It would be nice if the freshly minted MBA marketing people in Google didn't get to use Google as their private play pen.
It would also be nice if the people within Google who realise that Google is used for serious work by people were still in charge...
I would like to see Google's balls, to compare the two.
Are you serious? On one hand you've got coloured balls that repel from the mouse, on the other hand you've got grey letters that are coloured when you press keys. To me that's a big difference. And it's actually pretty cool too, and even better is that there's no Flash :)
It just fills in up to 6 typed characters. you can type 6 periods (.) and still get it all filled it.
What it is leading to after that is anyones guess. Seems more gimicky at the moment.
Googling "Google Search" does this. Is this new? I've never seen it...
it actually shows results real-time for what I'm typing. I'm accessing the .com site in the US. It looks kind of cool.
Is there a good reason why these new Google toys don't work in Opera by default? Neither the background image option or that swirling ball trick from the other day worked in Opera until you set it in the options for Opera to mask itself as IE or Firefox - and now the same thing is true for this latest gimmick.
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I really liked the page with the random balls. I played with that for a long time. Every time my mouse moved, the balls jumped. I showed it to my wife, but she wasn't impressed with the balls at all.
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I did a quick search and found it already exists
http://www.gamertech.com/googlelite/
Using Arora from the continental US here, I get the normal static image.
If I pretend to be Firefox, I get a gray image that fills in as I type.
Nothing really exciting.
I was able to see the streaming search yesterday for some reason... Luckily, I recorded it. If you want to see it, it's at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOizC3ZPsFI
I usually deactivate JavaScript and I usually try to use search engines/redirectors that use a SSL connection instead of mainstream search engines. Referrers are deactivated as well as cookies and other session storage options.
Nor did the one yesterday.
Yet another bit of distracting, eye-candy crap that uses JavaScript to tart up my monitor like a whore on Saturday night. I get that Google is becoming EVIL despite their stated intentions to the contrary, but do they have to be ugly and bloated too?
A quote from the TV series 'Life': "Its like Hello Kitty ate the Disney Channel and threw it up on that half of the room."
This trend of 'cute for cuteness sake' seems to be taking over the whole computing industry. I really wish developers, and
Google specifically, would spend more effort on functionality and usability and less effort on putting on their damned makeup.
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but she wasn't impressed with the balls
you don't say...
The doodle resembles unveiling of something. An announcement is coming...
"All your search are belong to us!"?
Is reading Google's intentions from the Google logo the new Phrenology or would it be more akin to practices of divination such as reading the future from tea-leaves or the entrails of recently slaughtered goats?
Perhaps they are working on an entry for the 1k Javascript demo contest.
Shouldn't you be busy bribing more companies to use your shitty last place search engine than sitting around trolling Slashdot with retarded attempts at generating faux outrage?
And it's actually pretty cool too
No, it's not. I just want to search for something, not drop acid and watch the electric light orchestra.
I thought it was about wearing white after labor day.
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As an Opera user I haven't been on google front page for years - I just use g in url bar to search for whatever I'm searching for
Is there a good reason why these new Google toys don't work in Opera by default? Neither the background image option or that swirling ball trick from the other day worked in Opera until you set it in the options for Opera to mask itself as IE or Firefox - and now the same thing is true for this latest gimmick.
I don't know for sure (not a Google insider) but I would guess that they are using a wrapper script or something that has a hard coded list of support browser by browser. Whatever version of Opera you are using is probably incorrectly identified as not having these HTML5 feature(s) supported. Or perhaps it only gives you some of the functionality so they make the executive decision to just disable it entirely. I just finished reading HTML5 Up and Running by Mark Pilgrim of Google and he pushes heavily for the use of modernizr to check browser capabilities. I've never known Modernizr to be wrong though. Whatever the case, it appears Google is simply not promising their doodle will work in Opera ... could be that they made a checking script for the Pac-Man doodle and just kept carrying it over. Did Opera work for that?
Now that I think about it, this is a high traffic page so they probably wrote their own browser checking wrapper for graceful fallback instead of pushing all of a javascript library down to each client. They are probably using a broad brush to balance bandwidth with audience and you're one of the unfortunate victims.
My work here is dung.
That's why he's playing with his balls.
I don't know what Google's big surprise will be, but we know one thing Google would like to see is universal use of Javascript. I wonder if this campaign has convinced anyone to enable Javascript to see what all the fuss is about?
Personally, I really really wish browser programmers would stop focusing all their attention on how to speed up and/or exploit Javascript, and instead focus their attention on implementing native support for modern W3C standards like SVG and XForms. You know - stuff that would have an actual real-world impact on the quality of the web applications we use. Web 2.0 is just an awful mishmash of standards and technologies that were never ever intended to be stretched as tightly as they have been by (admittedly ingenious) web app developers. It's time we start using technology that was intentionally created to support rich web app development, instead of building ever kludgier amalgamations of old school HTML crap.
in pants?
People actually go to the google home page? What's wrong with browser bar searching?
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Google is now searching Twitter ReTweets?
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There's a mirror for google.com at www.google.com.
At least that's what the doodle makes me think of...
They don't appear to change the doodle often when connecting via IPv6.
Meh.
No sig. Move along - nothing to see here.
Google just blew a fart. Hurry, post it on Slashdot!!
Those flying dots were freaking hypnotic. I spent more time messing with those than I did pacman, personally.
IMO, it could be either a fancy gimmick or a symbolism of sorts. Yesterday, I thought the flying dots might symbolize Google's intent to self-regulate due to the antitrust suit brought against them - instead of having the potential to be broken, they might fracture their individual components into separate companies, enabling them to financially/legally protect/isolate them from such an action. Adsense, Google, gMail, Google Research, etc. would become their own independent entities, possibly making it so they could be considered loss-leaders.
I don't know. I'm just throwing it out there; I don't understand how the whole financial thing works once a company goes public. Today, with the 'typeface' change, I'm not sure my original 'gut instinct' is correct. We will see, I suppose.
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Google was incorporated this week in 1995. I assumed these googles were part of an anniversary celebration. If so, I guess it's a bit odd that they didn't do one on Monday too (I think; I wasn't near my computer on Monday since it was Labor Day)
That Stephen Colbert is actually gonna hold the rally, and google is going to sponsor it?
Then type in the search box and hit enter, it's not like they took that part away.
Pink Floyd had better light shows for such things.
so what everyone remember doing similar things to create internet apps in the early 2Ks (before ajax) using urls in 0 by 0 pixel divs to pass info to the webserver, also remember forms that you didn't have to click an irritating edit button first - something form input boxes - text on change, on mouse down save button = visible
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I mean really...who cares? Why is it that every time Google farts, /. is there to analyze the emissions?
In fairness, Microsoft dropped ACID too.
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"All your search are belong to us!"?
Somebody set up us the doodle.
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Google's particle lightshow caused noticable lag on my laptop. That's needless and unacceptable. We know what bloat did to Firefox.
I'm really pleased.
Now everybody go to the home page and search "George Orwell." Let's make it the #1 search for the rest of the week.
Anyone else disappointed when they looked and saw how it was done?
Just two images, one full color and one gray, the gray one partially covering the color one.
I was hoping for a canvas tag or something.
Technoli
if you want to see something really cool, check out the Image Swirl search. Its no so much a bit of eye candy as is an associative grouping of search results - for images. Unfortunately, it uses Flash, but give it a go - click a group result and you'll see. Hopefully they'll implement this as js if it comes out of the labs.
I use bing about 75% of the time now. I use google as a backup
Noticeable LAG! On a free search engine? This is UNACCEPTABLE! Drag out the heretics, lash them to the canvas, and burn them eternally! Let not their javascript soil your pure nature. Cast out their algorithms from your cache, and listen not unto their rhetoric for their lips ever spew lies!
There shall be a Reckoning for this lag!
...using Noscript, RequestPolicy, Flashblock, Paper and Pen, Landline, Two cans tied together with a string.
Not on google.com, google.fi, google.se, or google.co.uk, but it does appear on google.de (with Chrome and Firefox, but not with Opera).
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Would it really have been too difficult to type out the words "Real Time" Search, instead of "RT" in the title? Don't assume that your audience knows every acronym that you do.
I suppose a lot of people like it, but I hate real-time search. It's like trying to carry on a conversation with someone who won't let you finish your sentences.
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It's hard to ignore that? It's not like it significantly increases load times or changes, well, anything.
If you just want results, why didn't you just type your query into the search box that's on every modern browser? You get to ignore the entire homepage!
It's like you're just bitching because you can. Seriously... get over yourself.
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Who uses the Google main page to launch searches anymore? Every browser I use lets me do it from the URL bar or a search box...
I saw that last night and thought "wow, Google's really got BALLS!"
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It's not turned on for everyone yet. But you can go here to force it on.
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Google has a homepage?!
I literally use Google every day, many, many times a day, but I haven't viewed www.google.com in... years? Even using Google Chrome I only view search results and stuff like Google Calendar or Gmail. Even still it seems that going to the homepage is pointless. Ironically, this means Google has grown beyond ubiquitous.
Of course I miss out on all the cute, experimental stuff they do...
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Look at all the crap that gets dumped in your history as searches that you didn't even type, but was what they suggested. I kind of liked it until I saw that.
"No I wasn't looking up 'asian ass porn', i was looking up 'asian food' but that's what it found before i got to 'food'"
No, that link you posted to a web comic we've all seen a hundred times is not "obligatory."
If you try the google search engine in Chrome right now, the RT search is working, and it's awesome!!! I tried FF3.5 and IE8 and they still show the old "static" search ATM.
they couldn't wait. RT search is up and running ;)
I gave up on Google when they changed their image search into something that works far worse in every possible way, provided no way to set the old style as default, and ignored all the angry users protesting in their support forums.
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Typing in the first two letters of a smallish but nearby town into Google search instantly returned the full name at the top of the list (I was not logged into Google). I'm hoping there is a way to shut this 'feature' off; if someone is reading over your shoulder (or logging), a typo or your past history might easily result in a firing / divorcing / knifing.
If your computer is so slow that the Google doodles caused lag, why aren't you browsing with noscript or with Javascript disabled? I'd imagine most sites are too slow for you.
Everything must be as boring as possible or it's not suitable for "professionals".
According to the PHBs, that's damned right.
Companies are paying their workers to use their attention on work. If that work happens to include Google searches and Google does things to distract them, it costs productivity.
A SMALL amount of distraction may actually improve performance by breaking fixation and creating a moment of stress relief. But there's a happy medium and an excess is counterproductive.
Or at least so sayeth the PHBs.
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