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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."
http://www.google.com/ isn't working for me, but http://www.google.co.uk/ is.
Doodles have never been on the HTTPS page since it launched, so no surprise there.
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 :)
And a colour changing logo affects your work day in what way? You realise no one at Google forced you to spend the afternoon playing pacman.
You can still type in a query, click search and get your results.
To be honest, I usually miss out on the doodles because it's so much quicker in Firefox to hit Ctrl K then type your query.
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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Actually I think it's you who has lost it. Google Search is a commodity, not something you have an inherent right to. Furthermore, these stunts of Google's are the type of thing MBAs shy away from; only in an organization where developers have a lot of free reign is this ever common.
was not canvas: absolute-positionned divs with round corners.
Correct. CSS3 feature, animated with ordinary Javascript.
You do realize that Google Doodles are a tradition at Google dating back to 2000? They archive all of the doodles here: http://www.google.com/logos/
If you are instead talking about Google's upcoming Realtime Search, then I don't think this falls under a "private play pen" item but an attempt to make a new search tool that people might find useful. If Google stops innovating and rests on their laurels, they risk another company overtaking them. Sure, not everything they do might succeed or be useful to the vast majority of people, but they try many different things and many of those things wind up working out.
My sci-fi novel, Ghost Thief, is now available from Amazon.com.
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
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.
You know, I think you'll recover from the trauma eventually.
I understand your skepticism. However, you must believe in the interconnectedness of things to understand why this works.
Reality is one vast machine. All actions are interconnected like gears in an elaborate clock. Looking at ants moving grains of sand can help divine the motions of the stock market. A woman dresses up one day determines (or is a consequence of) her horse winning a race at Belmont. The random drip of water flowing through a cave imprints "Rita Hayworth is a goddess" on the cave wall.
And a Google marketing rep, privy to the details of the announcement, wears a mongoose boa one day. The front-page coders, not privy to this information, think it looks clownlike. A man in a Chewbacca costume robs a liquor store. A blind ferret bites the toe of an American tourist in Sydney. Unable to finish the appropriate Javascript version of Fallout 4, the coders throw in some code from their existing type-ahead library.
This is how we know.
my parents use the search bar to search for google.com (with the .com, mind you), and then use the google home page to search. I wish I was kidding :(