HEINUS – SAN FRANCISCO – After Wired magazine writer Matt Blum panned Google’s ice cream Sundae doodle (where the company changes its logo to match a theme), the search engine company is reportedly altering plans for future doodles. According to anonymous sources, some of the doodles Google web managers have now shelved included the following:
May 18: U.S. vs Microsoft doodle – Commemorating the May 18, 1998, filing of an antitrust lawsuit by the Justice Department against Microsoft for monopolistic practices, the doodle design was a cartoon of Bill Gates depicted as Dracula with Attorney General Janet Reno driving a stake through his heart.
June 24: iPhone 4 antenna doodle – An animated doodle to commemorate the release of Apple’s iPhone 4 in 2010 with its problem of users ending calls by touching the lower left edge of the iPhone and bridging the two built in antennas. The doodle animation showed a giant iPhone 4 dropping onto Steve Jobs as he attempted to escape.
29 July: Facebook data leak doodle – To commemorate the July 29, 2010, release of Facebook data on 170 million users. The doodle was to show a naked woman in a shower reacting with shock after the shower curtain, emblazoned with the Facebook logo, was pulled aside.
Google spokesperson Agnes B. Marshall insisted that there was no underlying theme for these planned doodles. “These are just some doodles our staff came up with,” Marshall said. “Honestly, I don’t see any significance to them at all.”
(Steve Jobs image by Matt Yohe, shower image by Doug Coldwell)
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