Navigate to Google’s search engine page and you’ll find something rather peculiar. Today’s doodle is animated! While Google is no stranger to dressing up its iconic logo in a variety of costumes and themes, today’s doodle is addictively interactive. Move your mouse pointer over the logo and watch the particles disperse and then reform. Move your browser window around and you’ll find that the balls move with it!
While the exact meaning and purpose of today’s doodle is unknown, it does however, reveal a glimpse into the future of structuring and presenting content on the web. Though not officially announced, TechCrunch has posted that the doodle uses an HTML/Javascript particle simulator and not HTML5. Coding aside, this doodle raises many questions about the future of application development and the new ways in which we’ll interact with websites. Needless to say, it will be interesting to see how the web changes as emerging technologies (like used in Google’s doodle) are better integrated into the websites we know and love.
UPDATE: Some things are better seen than read about. Such is the case with Tuesday’s Google logo. If you somehow managed to miss it, Google’s September 7th’s logo was constructed of animated bouncing balls that interacted with the user’s mouse cursor. There’s still no official statement from Google on the significance of the doodle, but speculation has ranged from celebrating Google’s birthday to some phenomenal marketing from the do-no-evil tech giant. What do you think? Take a look!
