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Bob Moog Doodle

Google honors again a pioneer of electronic music: Robert Moog was born on May 23, 1934 (78th birthday). He invented the Moog synthesizer. For Moog it was a machine, but for musicians it’s an instrument. „Bob Moog’s innovative electronic design is employed in numerous synthesizers including the Minimoog Model D, Minimoog Voyager, Little Phatty, Moog Taurus Bass Pedals, Moog Minitaur, the Animoog iOS app, and the Moogerfooger line of effects pedals.“ Source. Read on »

Mother's Day Doodle 2012

Google wishes Happy Mother’s Day with a lovely Doodle. Two o-childs gives her g-mother a flower-gift. Nice. If you are a man, or without children you fail today. But, of course: you have a mother too. So take your chance a do something good – for the industries :-) As Valentine’s Day a strong campaign came over us. But, be sure: what did your mother would appreciate the most? Present her a power drill – and ask her if you could borrow sometimes… Read on »

youTube Video-Thumbnail bestimmen

How does the selection of the youTube video thumbnails work? Is it by random? Can you change the preview image that is displayed on youTube lists? Two years ago I described a method of how it worked (at that time). Therefore you could use a timer. Included to the video you could read the frame-timecode of the three video thumbnails. With this knowledge you could replace in the video exactly these three frames. After uploading again you saw your preview thumbnails. Now I have tested this method again. And, unfortunately: it fails. This article shows the experiment and the results. Maybe someone has another idea? Read on »

Howard Carter Doodle

Google honors Howard Carter with a nice „tomb-doodle“ (May 9th, 2012). Howard Carter was an English archaeologist and Egyptologist. He discoverer of the tomb of Tutankhamun. Howard Carter was born in London, 138 years ago. As a talented artist he was sent out to Egypt to assist in the excavation of Middle Kingdom tombs. On 29 November 1922, Carter opened Tutankhamun’s tomb. It is the most intact pharaonic tomb ever found in the Valley of the Kings. Carter died 17 years later, 1939 at the age of 64. Read on »

Google images test

The Australian Seo Dan Petrovic has done ​​an interesting experiment on Google’s Image Search. He has placed 100 pictures with numbers from 1 to 100 as the filename on a website. How does Google index it? How long does it take to get the images are indexed? In what order the images are crawled and indexed? And in what order they appear in the search results? Dan’s results are, well, a bit confusing to me (see „SEO experiment: Google Image Search‚). So I rebuilt the whole thing to see clearer … Read on »

Keith Haring Doodle

Google honors the amarican artist Keith Haring with an amazing doodle. It show some typical Haring figures. Keith Haring was born 1958 in Pennsylvania. Aged 19 he moved to New York where he was faszinated by the streetart and graphity artists. After he met Andy Warhol he started to paint on canvas. His works became part of the art market. In 1988, Haring was diagnosed with AIDS. Haring died February 16, 1990 of AIDS-related complications. Read on »

Gideon Sundback Doodle

Today the Google homepage shows a really funny doodle. It is an interactive zipper. The user can pull it down to see the Result page behind it. Google celebrates the 132nd birthday of the swedish inventor Gideon Sundback. He was Born on April 24th 1880. After school he went to Germany to study engineering. In 1905 the 29 aged Sundback emigrated to the United States. He married but his wife died some years later. In Dec. 1913 he „published“ his main invention: the zipper. Read on »

Robert Doisneau Doodle

The french photographer Robert Doisneau was born on April 14th 1912 – 100 years ago. Google honors this pioneer of photojounalism with a nice doodle. The doodle shows 4 photographies by Doisneau: „The tugboat“, „The three children“, „Dog on wheels“ and „The kiss“. A famous cite of Robert Doisneau is: „The marvels of daily life are so exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street.“ Read on »

Eadweard J. Muybridge Doodle

Easter Monday 9the April 2012 – Google honors the pioneer of photography Eadweard James Muybridge with a nice doodle. It is an animation and you have to start it by clicking on the „Play“ Button in the center. It shows a „Galloping horse“ set to motion using single photos. 21 horses, some are colored like the google logo. Eadweard Muybridge is known for his pioneering work on animal locomotion which used multiple cameras to capture motion. The Doodle based an an original sequence by Eadweard J. Muybridge. Looks in my eyes like an amazing piece of old fashiened pop art :-) Read on »

New: Google dating

Google is expert in search. But usually they concentrate on „abstract“ and „unemotinal“ searches. Yesterday Google changes this concept – love and search, search for love. As you can read in the official Google-Blog they now want to help people find their „love for the life“. Here is what Google announced: „Google offers many services. We want to make life easier to you. But usually we our service is abstract and objective. Now we decided to be more emotional. Is there anything more important than love? Many people have not yet found a partner for life. We want to help in this case. Searching is what we can.“ Read on »