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Queen's "Don't Stop Me Now" on Google Japan

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Re: Queen's "Don't Stop Me Now" on Google Japan

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Post by nl »

jamesgagan wrote: post #8
chao- wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Versus a small corporation? Or versus his image not being used at all? It is a tribute, with at least some degree of creativity and effort put into making the video. I don't see this being exploited to gain Google any more users than, let's be honest, they would have anyway. Especially since it is on Google Japan, I would anticipate people going to the main page, watching the video, and then not even performing a sea…

How many times does the google logo appear in various forms during the "tribute"? If you don't think google gains anything financially from this, then you don't understand how advertising works.

I suspect that people visiting Google.co.jp might already be familiar with the Google brand.

Re: Queen's "Don't Stop Me Now" on Google Japan

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Post by buster »

klausa wrote: post #2

For those that are wondering: today (Sept. 5th) Freddy Mercury would turn 65. It's also absolutely amazing, I recommend you to watch it in it's entirety. (I think it's also no longer Japan only, it was on .pl and .com for me also, but YMMV.)

.de now too

Re: Queen's "Don't Stop Me Now" on Google Japan

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Post by spiralganglion »

whatusername wrote: post #26
spiralganglion wrote: post #14

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It never ceases to amaze me what people are doing with these "classic" video games. I have immense hope that the current generation of video games, ten or twenty years on, will have fostered the same degree of love and devotion in their fans, leading to such astounding mods. I can't wait to see how the more advanced physics and rendering technologies in recent games are twisted by the brilliant and insane minds of ha…

Tower to Tower? http://jumprs.org/forum/showthread.php?742-Tower-to-Tower Not really a mod - but certainly has the love/devotion thing down.

I was tempted to post some Halo examples (not to mention Morrowind!), as I was really big into the Halo:CE jumping community back in, oh, 2001/2002. I have many, many fond memories of halo.bungie.org and the like — in fact, I remember seeing sneaky Halo-related hints on Bungie's website before they even did the famous reveal during a Macworld keynote (with you-know-who): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2obYHzJ3n8.

Then, Halo 2 came out with off-the-shelf Havok physics replacing the (wonderfully) "buggy" penalty springs-based physics from H:CE. Because Havok was "more-realistic", it was extremely difficult to do the sort of insane physics-stunting the first game allowed. It was this single change that turned me off of the rest of the Halo series.

Like Super Metroid, H:CE was a magnificent case of the weaknesses in code allowing for brilliant system-breaking ingenuity on the part of users. And as long as video game devs are forcing themselves to the very bleeding edge of technology under a merciless deadline, we're bound to see more "glitchy" games offering plenty of opportunity to enterprising and creative sequence-breakers, speedrunners, stunters, and the like.

Re: Queen's "Don't Stop Me Now" on Google Japan

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Post by ck2 »

Wow that was really beautiful. Why not on the US site? I hope they write a "making of" somewhere.

That's probably the most time I have ever spent on the Google front page, maybe that's a hint to advertisers.

At the end it auto-googles him too, isn't that a first too - Google auto-forwarding?

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