Google Logo Changes Again, Hinting RT Search? 212
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from the i-prefer-fake-time dept.
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."
google.co.uk (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Interesting (Score:5, Informative)
Re:difference? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Google has lost it... (Score:5, Informative)
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.
Re:Yesterday too (Score:3, Informative)
was not canvas: absolute-positionned divs with round corners.
Re:Yesterday too (Score:5, Informative)
was not canvas: absolute-positionned divs with round corners.
Correct. CSS3 feature, animated with ordinary Javascript.
Re:Google has lost it... (Score:4, Informative)
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/ [google.com]
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.
Streaming Search Vid (Score:5, Informative)
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
Re:Google has lost it... (Score:2, Informative)
Checking Browser Capability for Graceful Fallback (Score:4, Informative)
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 [modernizr.com] to check browser capabilities [diveintohtml5.org]. 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 [slashdot.org] 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.
Re:Google has lost it... (Score:1, Informative)
Everything must be as boring as possible or it's not suitable for "professionals". Everybody knows this.
Re:Google has lost it... (Score:3, Informative)
Holy crap. Control K. And here I was using my mouse like a sucker. Thank you!
Re:Google Don't Like Opera (Score:1, Informative)
Nice troll, but try being a little more realistic. Opera's more about 2% overall, and drastically higher in many EU countries. By not supporting Opera, Google would lose out on a large chunk of the market there, and they're not that stupid.
Google Instant is here (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Ugh, real-time search (Score:3, Informative)
It appears that you can toggle instant off and just use regular search.