Google Does A SCRATCH Doodle For 2013 April Fool’s Day. Very Clever. Very Cute.
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.by Anura Guruge
A Few Related posts:
>> Google’s April 1, April’ Fools Doodles — Mar. 30, 2013.
>> All Of Google’s Doodles & Games … — Jan. 16, 2013.
>> Link To Google’s ‘Zamboni’ Game … — Jan. 16, 2013.
>> Bing background vs. Google doodle — Mar. 31, 2013.
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Currently in Europe, definitely the U.K., where it is NOW April 1.
Click to access Google’s hilarious April Fool’s SCRATCH Doodle at Google (UK).
Will update to U.S. at midnight Eastern.
Will provide link to Google archive after April 1.
Google loves their April Fool’s jokes. I kind of had a hunch that they would do something special this year.
Though if you want to be pedantic, April 1, as does January 1, starts off in Australia (or thereabouts), MIDNIGHT GMT (UTC), i.e., London time, has always been the accepted start time for April Fool’s — given that GMT has ruled the roots, if not the meridian, for centuries past.
As Brit I am quite used to checking and using Google (U.K.), www.google.co.uk, and has a papal historian, http://www.google.it (Italy). So a few minutes ago I brought up Google UK. I was disappointed that there was NO visible doodle. Just for the heck of it I moved my cursor over the logo. The cursor turned from a pointer to a HAND. BINGO.
I moved the cursor. I saw a bit of BLUE appearing. It was SCRATCH doodle.
Brilliant. Amazing. Bravo. Kudos.
I think this is even better than the much loved Zamboni game.
So, just go to Google UK and move your cursor ABOVE the displayed Google logo. Wait till it changes … Then start scratching.
I was using Chrome. I haven’t tried it with another browser. I was too excited. I wanted to post.
I will go back and get more information.
Enjoy. This is great.
Microsoft Bing Competes With Google Doodles With Interactive Easter Egg Background.
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.by Anura Guruge
A Few Related posts:
>> Cesar Chavez Doodle, Mar. 31 … — Mar. 31, 2013.
>> All Of Google’s Doodles & Games … — Jan. 16, 2013.
>> Link To Google’s ‘Zamboni’ Game … — Jan. 16, 2013.
>> Google’s April 1, April’ Fools Doodles — Mar. 30, 2013.
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Click here to access Bing’s Easter 2013 search page with this background.
Move the cursor around and find ‘pop up’ rectangles. They contain clever ‘quotes’ or jokes like that shown above.
Wow. We now have controversy about Google Doodles! Who would have thought. [See below.]
And Bing is competing. Though my ISP, TDS, has Bing as the default search if I mistype a URL, I am a dyed in the wool Googler. I just banged my name into Bing when I went to get the background. I was impressed with the results. Maybe I should try it. But, as Deanna always complains I like my routines — but, part of that is the discipline. I have used Google for so long.
I am, as you know, partial to Google Doodles — especially after they gave me the one I requested!
Bing, I guess, has a different background daily — and as with Doodles, some of it is country-specific. Yes, there is an archive (and I will confess, it is better laid out than Google’s).
I don’t think I will have the time to follow both. I am hooked on Doodles.
But …
The Controversy!
A Handsome Google Doodle For American Civil Rights Activist, Cesar Chavez’s 86th Birthday. He Died 1993.
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.by Anura Guruge
A Few Related posts:
>> All Of Google’s Doodles & Games … — Jan. 16, 2013.
>> Link To Google’s ‘Zamboni’ Game … — Jan. 16, 2013.
>> Google’s April 1, April’ Fools Doodles — Mar. 30, 2013.
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Click here to access the Cesar Chavez Doodle Google
on Google’s main search page during March 31, 2013.
Link to find it post-March 31 will be posted later.
Mexican American Cesar Chavez [March 31, 1927 – April 23, 1993]
was a farm worker, labor leader and civil rights activist,
who, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association
(later the United Farm Workers union, UFW).
Nice touch by Google.
Chavez has been getting a lot of press of late.