Why Is Google So Fixated On...

...splashing animations all over people's screens? It's like coming into someone's house and throwing confetti all over the place.

 

yahoo seems to have the same bug up its ass too. it comes down to for profit economics having robbed our internet. why is little green pieces of paper of course. the same thing every kind of media has prostituted itself for.
unless you mean the pretty little meaningless doodles. well even the unimaginatively greedy have to let the creative people they depend on have a little fun, or they would be able to hire them.
just as a wild guess.

its also like, you know how bp and arco (oil interest) like to make themselves look like they care about the environment, while busily destroying it?
innocently supporting creativity. supposedly, while at the same time, the one thing corporate economic interests fear more then anything else, is a populas that thinks for itself.
that's why fast lanes for corporate entertainment and slow lanes for galleries and forums for creative nerds, and giving/selling us "social media" instead of our own websites.

i mean one thing you'll notice, they (meaning pretty much all internet search engines) partially robbed the internet already when they came up with what THEY call "relevance",
which means when you want look something up, someone who will tell you a streight simple answer, to a specifice technical question is burried way down on page z,
under a mountain of people who want to sell you a book about it, some other thing they want you to pay money for.

this was even before the fast lanes slow lanes crap.

 

I had a friend to that to me once, on my 27th birthday. I was still finding confetti one year later.

 

what animations are you talking about? there's the word "google" that changes pretty much every day on the home screen, but other than that i don't think i've ever seen an animation on google unless i was searching for one.

 

https://www.google.com/webhp?ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

 

yeah, that's the home screen image i had mentioned. i don't see how that's splashing animations all over our screen, or how it could compare to throwing confetti in someone else's house. seems to me it's more like we're going into google's house, and complaining that he changes his shirt every day.

 

They don't autoplay when I go to google so they are easily ignored...

 

If someone loves you that much, you have to love them back, even if they're stupid

 

Oh, I love her so, so much.

 

Last time I used Google it looked like this

 

They are appealing to some people's "love of whimsy" (insert eye roll) and/or the lowest common denominator.

 

why is THIS a problem? and if it is, why make it your home screen? i'm pretty sure every browser i know of makes it possible to set as your home screen whatever web address you might want it to be.

what's crap is when people link you to farcebook to show you something and it puts this huge banner demanding you join them hiding half the screen.

 

Pinterest does the same....

 

is this supposed to be satire? LOL

 

i haven't seen that, i'll take your word for it though. i haven't gone directly to their site in a while. they 'spam' my email instead and if i see something i like i go through that collection. i'm not defending pinterest. some of the artists i 'know' from on line, aren't entirely happy with them for another reason though. well that's controversy and not everyone takes the same side. just depends on whether you'd rather see art as an occupation or a form of communication. i'm not saying it can't be both, but there is some conflict between competing interests in that regard.

on another note, another connection that failed to occur to me, about the google thing when this thread started, is sigraph, that was in late july, and they may have been celebrating their mention there.

 

That's the classic logo everyone remembers




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There are 100 sites that are worse. This is minor in any context

 

I miss Netscape











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