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Love it.

Ed, get a life. This is insulting. As was the glom on Les Paul. It is thin PR at best. It does not honor Moog's birthday. It is a sad attempt to associate Google with innovation ... which is something they actually don't know how to do on their own. There is no connection here ... yeah, I heard the harmonica app on the Iphone too. WooHoo! This is simply an insult to Moog, inventors, music and musicians all for the sake of advertising. Let's not forget to add. Silly? This only works on CHROME.

NotW,you might be the one who needs a life if you get this bent out of shape over a doodle that many will find amusing and briefly entertaining. You also need to get your facts straight as I just played it on both Internet Explorer and Firefox.

NotW, on 22 May 2012 - 08:08 PM, said:

As a web developer who understands the sheer difficulty in creating this Google Doodle, I say: YOU get a life!

Do you have any idea how complex this Doodle was to design and code? It is in ITSELF a work of art, as with the Les Paul tribute.

In fact, I'd say it abso-freakin-lutely honors Moog, inventors, innovators, music and musicians by designing and constructing an instrument to manipulate sound waves (*COUGH* just like Moog did *COUGH*) using pure HTML5 to create something so FREAKING awesome and oh yeah ... share it with the world for free.

And it works on Safari and Firefox as well - looks like just about any browser that supports HTML5.

Fail.

Thanks for the link. I can't get it to show up on my Google pages, as Google was nice enough to give me my own Birthday Google Doodle for May 23. =)

BTW, the green and red cables are the L and E for it to spell GOOGLE =)

Thanks for the heads up. Now, if I only new how to play Edgar Winter's Frankenstein... maybe I can drive my spouse crazy by trying to.

NotW, on 22 May 2012 - 08:08 PM, said:

I'd say from your post you've either sod all idea what your'e on about or you got out of bed and hit the deck.
Years ago I had a very similar lil synth and the Google one works the same way, with similar results. I've had loads of plug in synths not half as easy to use as this, so whoever designed this 'sad attempt' needs a fair bit of credit.
Wind your neck in, go back to bed and sleep it off, there's a good chap.

This shows the power and beauty of web apps

Google puts a twist on consistent use of a brand logo. Check out the fantastic new Google "Doodle" and see why constant playing around with the logo works in this case: http://merriamassoci...brand-constant/

This Doodle, like ALMOST everything else Google does, is absolutelt brilliant, and a tribute tht I'm ure woul dhave impressed Mr. Moog himself.

As for the author's comment about the ”obvious play on Moog’s name," look again at every this and every Doodle Goole has ever authored. If you look at the green and red cables, you will see "le." And when you put that together with the knob configuration, you get "Google."

...now if I could just learn to type, or at least review my comments before I post them...

Yo Joe, some things matter. You may not realize it but the corporate seizure of another's creativity is bad enough. This is a recurring nasty habit of Google's. The seiezure of the personal is dredging the very bottom. 'Bent out of shape?' You bet. Did I make a technical mistake? Sure. The 'Doodle' at the o'clock of live that I tested it didn't load on other browsers but Chrome. Did it not load or was it painfully slooowww? And why? Frankly, it kinda felt like the Facebook IPO. But no excuses, it was my mistake. I should have tested and retested so that I could, like you, come out in full support of Ed's praise for the appropriation of a man's birthday by a PR team of a multi-billion mega-corp. Hey, I'm not mad about their money. This is America. If they want to advertize meaningful accomplishments, what they actually do, that's great. How does this compute in the scale of what billions of $$ can do. Again, anorexic PR. And inappropriate to appropriate a stranger's birthday. They coulda dropped a million on a favorite charity and talked about that. This is a familiar pattern of Google-think: pick targets that can no longer speak for themselves.

christinemartino, on 22 May 2012 - 08:31 PM, said:

Hi Christine,

You miss the point: Do I forget to ohh and ahh at ads because I fail to see how hard it was to get the model's breast implants to look good? I think that was your question. I commented on a corporate decision. Also, I made an omission: At the o'clock of live, this Doodle did not load within a full minute on other browsers. It responded well only on Chrome. Why? On competing browsers, I saw Google's ad ... to the effect: Get a Real Browser, Get Chrome .... OK.

Let's talk about shallow. First, what's the connection between Moog and Google other than the double "o"? What is the relationship of the Doodle to synthesis? It's a fact, the Doodle doesn't synthesize anything whatever. That's your mobo sound adapter doing all the work. The Doodle doesn't do a thing that many thousands of other programmers haven't been doing to generate MIDI commands for synth drivers to soundcards for 25 years. My opinion, the ad is less than interesting. The concept is offensive. Why steal Moog's name to lend the Doodle a significance it doesn't deserve? Am I excited that people say they spent hours while supposedly at their jobs playing with it? Gee, what do you think? Does it honor Bob Moog? How? It was a cheap and callow advert. That and nothing more. And the fact that Google can pay employees to trivialize something personal, a life, in exchange for marketing capital ... well, shoot me for calling it crass.

I would just like to comment on the sentence: (By the way, look closely: the lines connecting the knobs above the keyboard spell out “Goog,” an obvious play on Moog’s name.)
Take a closer look at the green and red wires. The green wire is a 'L' and the red wire is a 'E'. So the wires spell out GOOGLE. That's all folks!

So, where do I find it?

I read the interesting story on Google doodle on Moog but too late.
Is there somewhere a possibility to download the doodle and have it playing in coming days ?

headturner, on 28 May 2012 - 08:13 AM, said:

http://www.google.co...s-78th-birthday You will find a link on that page that will take you to all the other past Google Doodles.