Google, topical as always, prepared one of its famed doodles in celebration of today's passing asteroid and the fact that we're all not post-apocalyptic shadows of our former selves. The Google Doodle team, however, couldn't have anticipated just how unfortunately relevant they actually would be following the unexpected and destructive meteor explosion over Russia. Read More >>
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"Totally agree. Like delaying the release of a movie that shows someone being murdered, because someone has been murdered in real life... in the US alo..." More »
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"The Moog Synthesiser edition was pretty awesome, in my opinion. A very useable flash based synthesiser and Google actually opened up the API to develo..." More »
Before you rush off to Google's homepage to check for yourself whether it's actually celebrating Tess Daly's birthday -- of course it's not. (That fine image was mocked up by @TheManWhoFell, one of Twitter's funniest users.) But the point is, it could be real. How many times in the past two years have you thought "why is Google celebrating the 157th anniversary of some niche invention?" or "I wish Google would stop fooling around with easter eggs such as "askew" and "zerg rush" on its search page, and update my HTC Magic to Android 4.0.3* already"? Read More >>
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"I never said anything about search results, its well documented that they are focusing on the US market and UK results suck ass, but the images and vi..." More »
The ever-popular Google Doodle is today celebrating the life of Robert Noyce, the co-founder of Intel and a man with a good claim on having played a big part in inventing the microchip. Read More >>
Featured comment by tro11:
"On a related note, you can't mouse over a doodle in a search results window to see its info with the new google drop down bar." More »