Why is this on top of Hacker News? What is amazing about this?
Coz it is Dec, and it is Google. ;)
Google: Let it snow
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Re: Google: Let it snow
#32Hey google folk - snow is pretty and nice but how about considering making your home page black or put a black ribbon (ala "censor" band) to alert more people to the SOPA vote moved to the 21st?
There is a hidden reason for stunts like these. They spread by word of mouth to non-technical users. Those users try them, fail, and then ask their children why. Just like that, Chrome steals one more user from Internet Explorer 6.
On the other hand, Google opposes SOPA, but being overtly political has its problems...
Re: Google: Let it snow
#33Hey google folk - snow is pretty and nice but how about considering making your home page black or put a black ribbon (ala "censor" band) to alert more people to the SOPA vote moved to the 21st?
Google's homepage shouldn't have anything to do with politics IMO. Leave it to the organisations that specialise in those sorts of issues.
Re: Google: Let it snow
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you click and drag across the screen, then it will have the effect of doing this with your finger :)
I think that part of the effect only works on chrome. Actually I can't get any of it work work on IE9 on Win7, it just shows regular serach results. Edit: oh I see, you have to wait for the "Defrost" button to show up before you can "wipe" the frost off. Still doesn't work in IE though :)
Works on Firefox 8 (Linux).
Re: Google: Let it snow
#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hacking away at the Labs is awesome. This? It's just tinkering with the UI. There are a gajillion different key word searches they could do; tilt tilts the screen, scary ghost scream waits ten seconds and then flashes a scary ghost on the screen with a scream; etc etc. And, while they're doing that, and Google just works for most people there are a small group of users who'd really appreciate better documentation for…
http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&... Advanced search (bottom of search results)->Advanced search tips (top of the advanced search page)
repeated words count?
Re: Google: Let it snow
#36I wonder why they didn't enable this in their tablet layout. I thought performance at first, but It runs acceptably well on my iPad 2 when identifying as OSX Safari in terra browser, and the desktop version even responds to changes in the accelerometer.
not sure about why not on the ipad, but on my playbook it seems to work fine as well.
Re: Google: Let it snow
#37I see Google has decided to turn their search results page into every website from 1998.
Except that using modern technologies it uses a ton of CPU time to accomplish.
Re: Google: Let it snow
#38Hey google folk - snow is pretty and nice but how about considering making your home page black or put a black ribbon (ala "censor" band) to alert more people to the SOPA vote moved to the 21st?
Google's homepage shouldn't have anything to do with politics IMO. Leave it to the organisations that specialise in those sorts of issues.
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Re: Google: Let it snow
#39Why is this on top of Hacker News? What is amazing about this?
"Bah! Humbug!"