Google Doodle: Grey Logo on Homepage – Better than yesterday’s?

By: Alan Ng | September 8, 2010 | 19 Comments

After intriguing the world with their interactive balls doodle, Google are at it again today. The company has transformed their homepage with another clever idea which is sure to put a smile on your face.

If you head to their homepage now, you’ll see that the Google logo has changed into a grey, pale shade of color. While this may seem useless at first, if you type anything into the search bar, you’ll see that the Google letters light up for the first six keyboard inputs.

So say if you type ‘Google’ for example, the grey logo will transform into the usual Google colors during each input – another brilliant idea by the search giants – do you agree?

Give it a go and let us know what you think. Do you prefer this design to yesterday’s interactive balls?

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Rob Aeschleah
The balls were highly entertaining. This is also a nice feature.
Freya
I liked the balls, but if you were using Google a lot over the day, I could see it might get annoying. This one is actually very cool, I worked it out when I typed in "Google grey logo" to find out what it was.

Hannah
Same, I found out what it did by going to type in "Grey Google Logo aswell.
Mccar42
I also wanted to know what the deal was with the flashy new logo yesterday and after midnight i go to search again and its just grey lol.
so i typed in google grey logo, and sure enough it lit up… =p

Mike
They've gone all Billie Jean, lighting letters up along the way on us!
Mark
The balls were very pretty but this grey one is very irritating. I use the Stylish add-on in Firefox to give a dark background to the page. Because the image is not transparent I have a big white rectangle on the screen.
CDo we really have to have so many alternative logos? Some of us would just like a plain page, thanks.
mike
completely useless stuff
Kimmy
I quite enjoyed the colourful balls yesterday but I agree with Freya, by the end of the day – it was like a hyperactive child in your face! Also, I have to switch between browsers as BBC iPlayer won't work on Mozilla Firefox for me so when I used Internet Explorer – the balls were HALF the size they were on Firefox! Did anyone else notice this?
Jeff
use https://www.google.com/ if you don't like them changing their logo. Also if you'll notice, when using Internet Explorer 8, the past two logos have much less smooth and don't look as good as other browsers, so I think it's a subtle attack on IE.
TWASH
Brilliant – loved both of them – & yes its completeely useless stuff – but highly entertaining and FUN!!!
Guest-here
love the grey .. color typing logo
very ingenious (and yes i used it for ingenious )
Guest-here
also… if you delete you search word it goes back to grey
snappin
XD, you all like balls
Kenny
Give me back my balls!
guest
grey all gone now
anisha
I like the balls! it was really pretty and fun!!
Lex
This gray letter that changed to color as you type was clearly your one day warning that Google Instant was coming, which incidently, sucks.