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Wednesday, July 5, 2006

Holy Crap! Happy 4th From Ask!

Ask.com has the boldest holiday celebration image I've ever seen on a search engine. Rather than rework their logo or page coloring, they went for a giant fireworks-filled image.

Here's a screenshot (click to enlarge):

Beautiful. The Fourth of July is one of my favorite days of the year (and it sucks to be in another country on it), so I feel proud just looking at it. That background image is a 195,850 byte, 998624 pixel behemoth. Wow.
(via Barry)

Here's Yahoo's doodle:

Does Google have a Doodle? I can't get through to Google.com right now.

UPDATE: Jason said NBC ruined their fireworks coverage with "too cool for the room" camera edits that missed all the good stuff. Figures. I didn't get to see any fireworks, since, for some reason, they don't celebrate July 4 outside the U.S. Weird, right?

UPDATE 2: Here's Google's Doodle, courtesy of mark:

And, if you, like me, can't get through to Google.com, here's the same logo, uploaded to Imageshack by Haochi:

I gotta say, compared to Google's previous Independence Day logos, this one is too cutesy, and seems to have no idea that this day is actually important to some people.

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Nathan Weinberg writes the popular InsideGoogle blog, offering the latest news and insights about Google and search engines.

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News Tags: Image, Ask, NBC, InsideGoogle
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Nathan Weinberg writes the popular InsideGoogle blog, offering the latest news and insights about Google and search engines.

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