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Google celebrates Pac-Man’s 30th anniversary with playable logo
A playable … logo? That’s exactly what web giant has today, in celebration of the 30th anniversary of Pac-Man’s Japanese release. The doodle (Google’s term for its event and holiday-specific logos) is accessible on its main page and is a full 255-level game complete with a 256th level “kill screen,” just like the original coin-op. The interactive doodle — a first for Google — is the brainchild of senior user experience designer Marcin Wichary, whose earliest exposure to Pac-Man came at age five while traveling across his native Poland with his father, a game technician, to repair arcade machines. Wichary...
Google’s digg like system – SearchWiki
Google starts its own digg like system called Searchwiki. A new feature lets Google users change the results they see for specific Google searches and revisit their changes and comments later. This new feature not only allows users to customize searches but also allows all Google users to add notes to specific listings, which is visible to others. I personally named it the Google Digg system. This i think by far is one of the killer moves Google has made to it’s search engine yet. This gives me the power to remove all those unwanted fly by night SEO boys...
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