You know there's nothing better than a fresh Google Doodle to start your day. You know the score, the Google logo's changed to some strange image you click it and then boom, you get a million pages explaining why Google have changed its logo and usually a miniature science lesson via the Wikipedia page which you are bound to end up on. But what about when you can't click the image and find out what it means? That's what Google have done today and we are so mystified it's actually making news stories on various news websites and we're talking front page not half way down the tech news section.
The first logo was in honour of the burning man festival in 1998.
Since then it has become a tradition for Google to celebrate the anniversaries of famous events with a 'doodle.' And in recent times we've seen interactive ones. There was the frankly awesome Pac-man game doodle and a few days ago, the 'buckyball.' Today, Google's 3rd interactive doodle is a a collection of coloured blobs (some say balloons) which dance around if you go near them and settle down when you stop.
But why? Some point to HTML 5. Google have already shown this off with the custom Arcade Fire music video but there's nothing stopping them from showing off with a doodle as well. A Google spokesman said, ‘Today's doodle is fast, fun and interactive, just the way we think search should be.’ But just because it's fast and fun doesn't mean it doesn't mean anything.
Some suggestions include, Google's birthday and (to quote wiki,) "On September 7 1927 the image dissector successfully transmitted its first image." The image dissector seems just the thing for Google to celebrate, but they'd tell us it was that wouldn't they?
Not necessarily last September a series of mystery doodles made an appearance such as this one.
Remember it? (There was a crop circle one too.) Though at the time Google made no announcement it was later officially confirmed that the doodles were in honour of the late grate sci-fi writer H.G Wells.
So chances are we’ll find out soon what the ‘coloured blobs’ mean. In the meantime we’re open to suggestions.
And I might switch to Bing today because the doodle does get quite annoying.
Source: geekygadgets
2 thoughts on “Mystery Google Doodle”
Haha, this google image is cool. It bounces round teh screen when you move your mouse over it. I like it a lot. My friends have seen it in IE 7 and it’s not working for them, they just get the ususal Google UK standard logo? Is that becasue IT is pants? I think so.
i personally love the google doodle’s thanks for shining some light on this mysterious charade. I am a keen follower of your post and I like What I am Reading.