{"id":898,"date":"2010-09-07T05:51:31","date_gmt":"2010-09-07T10:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westfloridacomponents.com\/blog\/?p=898"},"modified":"2017-12-11T22:53:55","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T03:53:55","slug":"why-are-there-balls-on-googles-home-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westfloridacomponents.com\/blog\/why-are-there-balls-on-googles-home-page\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are there balls on Google&#8217;s home page?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s usually obvious what the represents. If it&#8217;s not obvious, then a quick click on the Google logo or doodle usually brings you to the search string (and the answer). This morning&#8230;.not so much.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s doodle can&#8217;t be clicked on. It is comprised of colorful balls that grow and fly around the screen as you move your mouse around the screen. It&#8217;s addicting&#8230;but unlike the PacMan doodle from a few months back, it&#8217;s not a game. So what is the mystery?<\/p>\n<p>A quick search on Google (after another 3 minutes spent chasing the balls) reveals that the balls are coded in HTML5. Pretty impressive, actually. Could that be the reason for the special effects logo?<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, this bouncing doodle can only be seen in the UK and the US. And, it renders differently if you&#8217;re using Firefox vs Internet Explorer.<\/p>\n<p>I am sure the reason for this logo will be revealed by someone with greater insight into the mind of Google. But for now, I&#8217;ll just wait to find out&#8230;and kill another 4 minutes of my time on the Google homepage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s usually obvious what the represents. If it&#8217;s not obvious, then a quick click on the Google logo or doodle usually brings you to the search string (and the answer). This morning&#8230;.not so much. Today&#8217;s doodle can&#8217;t be clicked on. It is comprised of colorful balls that grow and fly around the screen as you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[159,191,189,190],"class_list":["post-898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsworthy","tag-google","tag-google-balls","tag-google-doodle","tag-google-logo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westfloridacomponents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westfloridacomponents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westfloridacomponents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westfloridacomponents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westfloridacomponents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.westfloridacomponents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3312,"href":"https:\/\/www.westfloridacomponents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions\/3312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westfloridacomponents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westfloridacomponents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westfloridacomponents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}