Check out today's Google home page!

Balls! What does it mean? Is there hidden meaning? I feel like I am not seeing something. Balls that are repelled by my actions.
 
Aepervius said:
java must be enabled on the page to work. If you use noscript or something you have to switch it on.
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I guess you mean javascript, not java... Anyhoo, that's not it. I have javascript turned on in Opera, and it still doesn't work. I think it's an html5 script (which would be stopped when running noscript or somesuch, but still is not javascript) with one of the elements that is not implemented in Opera's rendering engine.

EDIT: It still runs in Safari 5.0.1 with java and javascript turned off.
 
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elgarak said:
EDIT: It still runs in Safari 5.0.1 with java and javascript turned off.
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If it still runs, script isn't turned off. It is just script, looking at the source, and it doesn't work for me if I block script in Firefox.

Edit: I guess it could be a script type that isn't Javascript (it doesn't specify a language), but it seems a bit odd to be able to turn off Javascript and leave other script types running.
 
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I saved the Google home page to my hard drive with Firefox and found that it behaves a little differently when loaded from there. The colored balls still fly around in response to the mouse cursor, but they also remain in place at their rest positions, spelling "Google."
 
Towlie said:
I saved the Google home page to my hard drive with Firefox and found that it behaves a little differently when loaded from there. The colored balls still fly around in response to the mouse cursor, but they also remain in place at their rest positions, spelling "Google."
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:confused:

I thought that was normal? I just have to load the page and keep the mouse cursor off the logo... no need to save it....
 
I mean like this:
 

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It's changed now. When it loads, all you see is "Google" in plain gray letters with the entry box underneath and the two search buttons under that. If and when you move your mouse, all of the other options appear in blue around the page. Then, as you type in a search word, the letters of "Google" are colored in, one letter for each character that you type.

Maybe they're going to keep coming up with new gimmicks all week long.
 
So apparently this has all been to call attention to the new Google Instant, which predicts what you're typing and shows you search results for the most common entry as you type. This is being touted as a Very Big Deal in the Google world, because it saves you that quarter of a second it takes to hit the Return key.

If I see this "advance" as utterly insignificant, does that make me old and out of touch?
 
Quinn said:
So apparently this has all been to call attention to the new Google Instant, which predicts what you're typing and shows you search results for the most common entry as you type. This is being touted as a Very Big Deal in the Google world, because it saves you that quarter of a second it takes to hit the Return key.

If I see this "advance" as utterly insignificant, does that make me old and out of touch?
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If you are right then see this thread http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=185070.

Actually you would save a few seconds. See the link in the other thread for details.
 
Quinn said:
So apparently this has all been to call attention to the new Google Instant, which predicts what you're typing and shows you search results for the most common entry as you type. This is being touted as a Very Big Deal in the Google world, because it saves you that quarter of a second it takes to hit the Return key.
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It provides more convenience than that to me. I often have to look up things for which I'm uncertain of the spelling, so being able to see search results as I'm trying different spellings instead of conducting a discrete search for each one is pretty cool. More conventionally, I often don't get my search to give me ideal results on the first attempt and Instant speeds up that tweaking process as well.

Sliced bread probably retains its position at the top of the innovation food chain but Google Instant is pretty cool.
 
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