Great news for all doodle fans. The famous les paul doodle which was available online has been made permanent. The ubiquitous search engine launched a dedicated page for its interactive Les Paul doodle on Thursday, which would have been Paul’s 96th birthday had he lived as long. He died in 2009 at 94.
The doodle consists of Google’s company logo in the form of a guitar. It comprises 10 electrified strings, virtual pickups, a recording button, and two anatomically incorrect, albeit cleverly situated, sound holes for the ‘Os.’ Thousands of people all over the world have come to enjoy this simple commemoration of a great guitar man and recording pioneer. One estimate suggests that, on Thursday alone, 5.3 million hours were spent plucking about on that little digital six-string.
“Google’s Les Paul Doodle consumed an additional 5,350,789 hours of time versus the 4,819,352 hours consumed by the Pac-Man Doodle… Users did not spend much more total time at their computer than previous periods, but they did spend 10% more time at Google’s website than they typically would, meaning that the 10% more time spent at Google was stolen from other computer use time,” it added.
Here in our offices, the entire office was filled with the sounds of amateur musicians trying to invent their own masterpieces all day Thursday. This is not the first doodle to get the standalone treatment. A May 2010 playable tribute to Pac-Man’s 30th anniversary proved so popular that Google let it lives on at Google.com/Pacman. The doodle zapped nearly 4.8 million hours of our productivity. Hopefully Google can continue with this tradition and continue to revive those good old days to us and our future generation
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