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It's awesome, but does anyone have any idea what exactly it is in honor of?  Or what it's supposed to be, for that matter?
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Stand between the Silver Crystal and the Golden Sea.
"Youngsters these days just have no appreciation for the magnificence of the legendary cucumber."  --Krityan Elder, Tales of Vesperia.

Huh, this

well, it's a Buckyball.

Odd.  That's not the Google logo I'm seeing.   
The one I have has the word formed out of a bunch of differently colored balls that bounce all over the screen when the mouse gets near them.
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Stand between the Silver Crystal and the Golden Sea.
"Youngsters these days just have no appreciation for the magnificence of the legendary cucumber."  --Krityan Elder, Tales of Vesperia.

Link/embed then plz!1!

It's just google.com, and I'm not sure how to embed it, as it uses the entire screen and isn't an image file as far as I can tell.  Try going to the classic Google page, if you don't have that enabled. 
Here's a youtube link.  I can't seem to get the embed code to work right, so sorry.
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Stand between the Silver Crystal and the Golden Sea.
"Youngsters these days just have no appreciation for the magnificence of the legendary cucumber."  --Krityan Elder, Tales of Vesperia.

it's not an image, it's javascript/html5. Which would explain why you have problems imbedding it.

If you turn off scripting you get a plain google logo.

and I have no clue what it's for.
-Terry
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"so listen up boy, or pornography starring your mother will be the second worst thing to happen to you today"
TF2: Spy

Didn't they used to have the logo link to whatever it was supposed to be about?

Ironically, my google-fu turned up this.
http://abcnews.go.com/Tec...-balls/story?id=11574390
Apparently, it's supposed to illustrate how they think searching the 'net should be. 
(That, or it's just for fun.)

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My Unitarian Jihad Name is: Brother Atom Bomb of Courteous Debate. Get yours.

I've been writing a bit.

Searching the net should make your browser lag?

... (Thanks for the offer, but I'll have to pass.)

-Morgan.

Why does Google hate me? I never get those logos.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20100907/tc_nf/75043

apparently, they have everyone guessing... which might be the point. Every time in the past there was a *something* behind it... maybe this time they did it without the something to see what people would dig up?
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to split the sky?
That's every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry-
NO QUARTER!!!
-- "No Quarter", by Echo's Children

Maybe it's in honor of this guy?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_McMillan
Also possibly, since there are distinct shades of the same set of colors used there, maybe it's a tribute to the 3D fad going on right now?  Anyone got a pair of 3D glasses to test with?

--sofaspud
--"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs

jpub Wrote:Why does Google hate me? I never get those logos.

It's because we're in Canada. Apparently, we aren't good enough to get fancy Google logos.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

Well the second footnote on this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckminster_Fullerene shows the reason for the bucky ball.

well, while they dont admit that it was a promotional gimik, they DID release a new search engine yesterday...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20100909/tc_nf/75095
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to split the sky?
That's every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry-
NO QUARTER!!!
-- "No Quarter", by Echo's Children