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Author Topic: Pac-man at Google Search...  (Read 7129 times)

simakuutio

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Pac-man at Google Search...
« on: May 21, 2010, 01:27 PM »
Wow, now I like this... google.com (and other google search sites as well) have pac-man on the front page... nice idea, indeed!

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Re: Pac-man at Google Search...
« Reply #1 on: May 21, 2010, 02:14 PM »
It's to celebrate the anniversary, and the fact that I only found out about 10 minutes to go shows how little I use the google homepage now, I suppose.  But well done, Google!

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Re: Pac-man at Google Search...
« Reply #2 on: May 21, 2010, 02:25 PM »
I found out about it from someone's tweet. I use my google apps igoogle page, so I had no clue about it
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Re: Pac-man at Google Search...
« Reply #3 on: May 21, 2010, 02:27 PM »
It would be nice if Pac-man could eat away the new Google Search Sidebar. :D

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Re: Pac-man at Google Search...
« Reply #4 on: May 21, 2010, 06:43 PM »
pac-man reminds me of my first pc in 96  :D

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Re: Pac-man at Google Search...
« Reply #5 on: May 22, 2010, 02:48 PM »
Darn, I played it in the arcade...man I feel old.


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Re: Pac-man at Google Search...
« Reply #6 on: May 22, 2010, 05:35 PM »
It would be nice if Pac-man could eat away the new Google Search Sidebar.

A GreaseMonkey script will fix that right up for you. :)

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Re: Pac-man at Google Search...
« Reply #7 on: May 23, 2010, 09:37 PM »
pac-man reminds me of my first pc in 96  :D

Pac-Man in '96? That's when the world was introduced to Starcraft.

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Re: Pac-man at Google Search...
« Reply #8 on: May 24, 2010, 03:06 AM »
@Shades:
Me too brother, me too...  :(

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Re: Pac-man at Google Search...
« Reply #9 on: May 24, 2010, 03:08 AM »
The interesting thing is it caused total confusion with CoolPreviews Firefox addon. There was a bit of code left from previous revisions that for some reason accessed Google's homepage and as soon as you started Firefox the PacMan music started. They rushed out a patched version very quickly but not before a lot of people started scanning their systems (me included) for something nasty ;)