In Japan on May 22, 1980, Pac-Man was released – which is now, although it is May 21st here in USA. To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Pac Man, Google has their first ever playable and interactive logo. Here is a picture of Google.com today:
Update: Mike from my team built a quick and dirty way to embed this onto your web site, so here it is so we never forget it:
Notice how Google swapped out, “I’m Feeling Lucky” for “Insert Coin.” Very neat! And the game really works! You can play up to 256 levels in the logo, for real!
It seems to be built fully in JavaScript and DIV and CSS elements.
Go check it out at Google.com.
Forum discussion at Google Web Search Help, yes this is a complaint.
Update: A few hours later, Googler’s have been posting your options:
Simply because there are dozens, if not hundreds of threads with complaints about the sound the Google home page makes from this Pac Man game. Here is one of many pages of complaints in Google’s help forum:
Update: Google removed the sound based on complaints.
