google logos

or should i say well played GOOOLO

don't you mean GOOOOOOOLOL

yes that is what i meant GOOOOOOOOOLOOOOOLOOLOLOLOLLLLOOOOOLLOLOLOLOLOL

http://i40.tinypic.com/5aqau0.jpg

morse code today

How original.

http://www.google.com/logos/michaeljackson09.gif

There's an Easter egg if you search for ascii art

Gfeetgle! Xpost

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=ascii+art

playing pacman yo

Hell yes.

2 player if you click on "Insert Coin" (WASD for second player).

NEAT

Hmm it's done in Flash.

Also not a fan of the target area for "Language Tools" being like three times the width of the actual link. BAD GOOGLE.

done in Flash.

So today at least everyone else is cooler than iPad owners.

Yeah, they gave us free pacman they're the fucking worst. Do no evil, my ass.

wasn't sure if it was Flash because right clicking suggested otherwise, not that i know how else it could've been done really.

DRIVIN' ME CRAZY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-MONIvP6kI

2 player if you click on "Insert Coin" (WASD for second player).

holy crap I just played both players at once and almost had a heart attack! It adds this whole layer of strategy because you can lead ms pac-man off in a suicide mission to draw away the ghosts and then have (uh...mr.) pac-man eat a power pellet at the last second to save her.

steve this file has the details:

http://www.google.com/logos/js/pacman10-hp.2.js

Meanwhile

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjEDX-2M7Qk

hmm i guess it's not Flash? confused.

PAC-MAN is playable on iPad and modern smartphones (Nexus One, iPhone 3GS, Palm Pre, etc.). Not available on mobile homepage but doodle will appear if people switch to the classic mode (iPad uses Classic as default).

Sound may be flash, but the game is javascript - it works on the iPad (though is a bit too fiddly)

Today, we’re introducing a new feature that brings a whole new level of personalization to Google by letting you add a favorite photo or image to the background of the Google homepage.

at last

Best one so far imo
http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/2047/flintstones10hpm.jpg

I used to sign my name differently on all the worksheets I did in 4th and 5th grade. It was one of the few things I could do to make school fun.

then again, green big bird always amuses me
http://img839.imageshack.us/img839/1750/sesamestreet200940thann.gif

the flintstones one is pretty good, i gotta give it to 'em

I never noticed before that if you leave the search box blank and just click 'I'm Feeling Lucky' it will take you to a collection of the various logos. This one is fun:

http://www.google.com/logos/2010/christie10-hp.jpg

google went kinda buck today, chrome os, app store

today's is quite possibly the ugliest google logo ever

Looks like the normal one to me, so far. But I do have to say that the one last week where you could control a submarine and explore underwater (with the space in the O's as windows to the ocean) was v v cool

oh it's V-Day over here already

http://www.google.com/logos/2011/valentines11-hp.jpg

u h8 <3

that jules verne's birthday one last week was pretty epic

ewww

it's like a christmas-themed gas station postcard floating in the ocean

so word on the street (twitter) is googles launching another social network today lmao http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_to_launch_major_new_social_network_called_c.php

I'm def willing to give it a shot. Gmail has been the single best client I've ever used, as is GoogleMaps...GoogleEarth...

Don't think kids are gonna just STOP using FAcebook any time soon, tho. But wasn't the same said for Myspace's heyday? When I first got my FB account it def never seemed like Myspace was gonna go out of style.

Since Twitter corp seems pretty dedicated to shitty monetisation and is making a load of fuckups on the way I think it would make a softer target for Google right now. Especially since it's mostly public and users are happy to be public, which is what Google wants.

i think the thing w/any twitter killer - which is to say a sort of a la carte broadcast signal - is that it truly has to be a platform - like twitter and facebook sort of claim theyre platforms but they also want to be free to be apps when they want and squeeze out developers

def one of the scenarios in the future for twitter/facebook failure is that a lot of what they do gets taken over in a ho hum nbd way by an open standard and it just becomes like email or w/e and no one even really notices cause its such a mundane thing by then

thats kind of what dave winer is thinking abt http://scripting.com/stories/2011/01/03/rebootingRssRevisited.html

anyway as far as this im skeptical that google can succeed w/a copycat 'social network' - fb/twitter imo at this point are too big to be taken down by something that obviously looks like them - its the new idea that theyve got to worry abt

also i mean lol orkut and buzz - third times the charm right

http://circles.google.com/ was redirecting to a Google search page for 'Circles' earlier, now it's a 404.

A representative for Google told NetworkEffect unequivocally that no such service is launching at SXSW today. She would not say whether something called Google Circles was in the works.

so tomorrow

The funny thing about the fb vs myspace scenario was that fb offered significantly less...formatted profiles, no area for "customization", everything condensed into menus. But it came at a point when myspace was at it's most excessive and obnoxious.. ppl seemed to welcome that, as well as the "maturity" that came with fb and all that bullshit...

imo the latest facebook profile revision (as of feb, when i deleted my account) was verging on eyesore, with those massive collages of "HERE ARE MY FAVORITE BANDS - ALL 744 OF THEM" . but fb's still managed to counter that w/ the drop-down.. and plus just the fact that it's a social staple. i don't think anything is capable of "killing" another platform instantaneously... if anything would overtake facebook, it would be progressively. fb was around for years in "coexistence" w/ myspace until kids started deciding they couldn't hear Fall Out Boy on auto-play for the 3248203 time.

i guess what i'm trying to say that if circles is to prove any sort of success, it can't just mime what facebook has and expect the google moniker to carry them into graceland. it should monopolize on something fb's doing wrong.. which, atm, i can't think of anything.

It's awful at privacy scoping. People bascially have about five social circles -- family, work, close friends, acquaintances, public -- and Facebook flattens them all into one. If you try to hide stuff from certain people they'll get in yr grille about it, fam demanding to know why they're limited profile, work ppl making comments about nto seeing any pics. And because you can't go public in any controlled way at all, ppl use a whole diff service (Twitter) for that.

"Circles" sounds like they're going to make a stab at fixing that.

yeah i guess the challenge is making it user friendly - like facebooks experience w/trying to institute these type of controls is that even tho people claim to want the functionality they still never use it - its k a design issue really

im imagining w/circles, just judging by the name, google is trying to make it work by having that aspect be completely overt and central - kinda doubt google has the ux chops to get it right tho

the thing i would like is being able to customise the kind of content i get from a feed, i mean i subscribe to the nytimes art feed but there's all the theatre stuff and like news stories and really i only read holland cotter and ideally i could customise the kind of content i get better, or even better have the option of automatic content filtering based on my history.

Like
http://www.google.co.uk/logos/2011/bunsen11-hp.png

http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/11/googles-doctor-who/

i do love me some isometric graphics like this

game completely spoilt by mapping up down left right to diagonals... i hate that.

also, the daleks are very dumb.

https://www.google.com/logos/2014/rubiks/rubiks.html

(35 moves, 33 seconds...)