Monday, May 9, 2011

How distracting can Google get?

I think it's wonderful that Google changes its logo for special occasions, but this is getting to be a bit too distracting isn't it?

The logo from one day a month or so ago that was actually a little movie of a Charlie Chaplin impersonator when you clicked on it was very distracting.

The Earth Day logo that had different moving parts on it when you moused over the different parts of it - the swimming fish, flying birds, moving water, jumping frogs, etc. - was so distracting I completely forgot what I was going to Google on. I spent quite a bit of time playing with that logo, trying to remember what I was supposed to be searching on!

But today: "the 76th Birthday of Roger Hargreaves: Little Miss Shy" has many different logos. Every time you go into Google, you get a different picture! Wait, let me reload that page! Oh, that's a cute one.

Honestly, anyone not completely focussed on their task is going to find it very difficult to concentrate today.

This is fun, but is it really a good thing? Maybe I should Google on "distraction" to see if "Google" is part of the definition. Oh, that's a cute one too!

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