Pacman embedded on Google homepage

[JP]

For those who haven't been on google today they've embedded pacman into the title to celebrate 30yr anniversary. Got 9140 before game over as my dog dropped her toy on the keyboard to get my attention to play.

Enjoy

[Dan]

Just seen that, pretty awesome.

Another reason to avoid doing actual work...

[Phil Payne]

Dennis Hwang is responsible for Doodles.

If you have a brilliant idea (I've just passed him "American Campfire Day") you can either PM me and I'll pass it on, post in Google Webnmaster Central Help in the Chit-chat forum (which may get you additional votes) or follow the instructions at http://www.google.com/doodle4google/history.html

Edit: Forgot to say: ABSOLUTE MINUMUM leadtime is three months. Legal clearance, etc.

[Nuvo]

That's the first interactive doodle I've seen. I think we need more of those in the future.

The doodle celebrating Lego's 50 anniversary was the most memorable for me.

[Sonic]

It's almost identical to the original - to the point that it has the kill screen at level 256

[Dan]

It's almost identical to the original - to the point that it has the kill screen at level 256

Guess we know what you've spent today doing

[Nuvo]

The Asteroids video game 30th Aniversary was last year. It's a shame that wasn't given the same treatment as Pacman.

Atari's Battlezone is 30 this year however.<hint>

[Phil Payne]

It's not going down too well with everyone.

Many people are complaining about the noise being inappropriate for an office environment - they don't want to disable sound (a global decision on a PC) for other reasons.

Some are complaining about the size of the downloadable (it's 60KB) although they seem mainly to be people who don't understand client-level and intermediate caching - it IS marked correctly as cacheable.

The whingeing - should you wish to join in - is here: http://www.google.com/support/forum/...a95152c2&hl=en

(And you can see our very own JohnMu - Johannes Mueller - doing damage control for Google right now.)

[Phil Payne]

ROF,L!

The sound is now off by default.

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters/thread?tid=19dfddb861489bcc&hl=en

[Laurel]

Am I the only person who thought the "ghosties" were Jelly fish?? Gosh I feel like my whole life was based on a lie...