Google Doodles

[MTGuru]

<rant>

Is anyone else tired of the cutsey Google Doodles that seem to pop up every other day now?

Today it's some obscure comic book artist. I'm sure he was a fine person. But there are fine people, places and things to celebrate every day of the year. That doesn't mean we need to be force-fed awareness of them on the Google homepage, at Google's whim.

A main reason people like Google is the plain interface. At least they should give us the option of reverting the doodle to the default logo for the duration of the doodle.

</rant>

[Hotblack]

They don't bother me in the slightest. I just ignore them and get on with what I want to do.

[emmline]

Part what hotblack said, and part I kind of like them.

[dwest]

Doodles don't bug me at all but I've always liked terrestrial arthropods.

[benhall.1]

Part what hotblack said, and part I kind of like them.

Ditto.

There's other things I don't like about Google, mind ... like the streetview stuff and the periodic hardsell phonecalls from people in their advertising department. I was surprised when I first got one of those: it surprised me that Google need to do that at all. Sign of the times, p'r'aps.

[Dale]

I don't really mind them, but I rarely see them. I use the Google Chrome browser, which allows you to search Google directly from the URL box, so I don't go to the main search page.

I admit I'm surprised Google's calling people to do ad sales.

[benhall.1]

It's happened about half a dozen times over the last year. They say they're from Google - you don't think maybe they're not, do you, and it's just one of these scam things? (Like advertising 'in support of the police'.) If it is fake, it's been very convincing.

[dwest]

It's happened about half a dozen times over the last year. They say they're from Google - you don't think maybe they're not, do you, and it's just one of these scam things? (Like advertising 'in support of the police'.) If it is fake, it's been very convincing.

Are you using a Google Voice phone number? Google has mentioned trying to do audio ads on Google Voice.

[benhall.1]

No, just an ordinary phone line. And they were sales calls for placing Goodle ads, rather than ads in their own right for placing ads on Google.

Oh, bllimey! I've got meself all confused now!

[dwest]

No, just an ordinary phone line. And they were sales calls for placing Goodle ads, rather than ads in their own right for placing ads on Google.

Oh, bllimey! I've got meself all confused now!

I'm confuded too, they were cold calls or had someone expressed an interest in Google ads earlier?

[benhall.1]

No. Cold calls.

[Innocent Bystander]

I don't really mind them, but I rarely see them. I use the Google Chrome browser, which allows you to search Google directly from the URL box, so I don't go to the main search page.

I admit I'm surprised Google's calling people to do ad sales.

^ What Dale said. Although at work I am compelled to use IE, which scunners me somewhat. And means that I do get to see the doodles. I don't mind them unless they are animated doodles, which they have used in the past, and mean you can't do a search until their animation completes. Ten seconds is a long time if someone else's indulgence is slowing you down.

Google UK didn't show any "obscure comic book artist" yesterday. Who was it? Robert Crumb, I'll be bound. Obscure to YOU, maybe. Not to the true geek.

[fearfaoin]

Is anyone else tired of the cutsey Google Doodles that seem to pop up every other day now?
...

Good grief. Who actually goes to google.com these days?
You could always use Lynx. Then you'll have no images. Enjoy.

[mutepointe]

I like the unusual ways that Google is occasionally drawn. Occasionally, I see a clever piece of brilliance. I bet a part time job making these is more than the annual salary of a social worker.

[MTGuru]

And now International Women's Day. A worthy commemoration, of course. Grrrr.