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Potato gun, lightning, and sonic magic: Google Chrome Speed Tests
- sophacles 17y agoHow does one find a job doing that? Forget programming, I want to make potato guns to promote what the rest of y'all have done!
- what 17y agoDoes anyone know the firm that makes all the chrome ads? They're awesome.
- rjett 17y agoI believe Google's communications team produces them.
- spot 17y agothe group is called Google Creative Labs. see http://www.notesondesign.net/inspiration/advertising/google-gets-creative/ http://www.notesondesign.net/inspiration/advertising/google-...
- maccman 17y agoBBH New York was involved
- furyg3 17y agoI'm not quite clear on what's being 'tested' in these videos. The idea is give a practical visual comparison of really, really fast things to google chrome loading a web page. Because it's so practical, you don't need a tesla coil to duplicate it yourself (and be disappointed). Go to google, search for pandora, and click on the first link. Okay, so clearly they're not talking about transfer/load/rendering times. Let's click refresh. Well that was quite a bit faster, wasn't it? But still no lightning bolt. Cool video, but I'd be worried that users will be underwhelmed when they test it for themselves...
- castis 17y agowhy do you hate fun?
- furyg3 17y ago:) I don't! I think this video is absolutely awesome, and I deeply, deeply wish that I could trade in my current line of work to make these videos for a living. That being said, I can't replicate Chrome's load times as seen in that video :)
- mturmon 17y agoThe tedious parts of the job are left on the (proverbial) cutting room floor. Like construction projects, there's a lot of people just standing around waiting at a shoot.
- 124816 17y agoRefresh often disables the cache, or at least does a bunch of if-modified-since requests. Better to type the url again and hit enter.
- qwzybug 17y agoSemi-agreed. If you look closely, the mouse pointer (which they use to activate Chrome) is positioned over the "Forward" button in the browser; it looks like they let a page load completely, navigate back to Google, then the speed test is how long it takes to rerender the page from the cache. Still, totally awesome ad. Loved every second.
- itistoday 17y agoThis video contains no substance. It's an advertisement (albeit entertaining). Flagged.
- mcav 17y agoFlag silently. (Comments about flagging contain no substance either.)
- spot 17y agoThe making of: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oarMXGq3gI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oarMXGq3gI
- hoprocker 17y agoFascinating! 'Tis healthy to remember that technology can sometimes be used for intriguingly creative but basically useless purposes, and not just for one week a year in the Nevadan desert.
- tashbarg 17y agoI'm new to HN, read the introduction at http://ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html http://ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html and found the concept really great but doubted that people really can restrain themselves from posting "funny" or "cool" stuff. Then I find this. I'm not sure if I'm disappointed that those ambitious goals can't be met or if I'm thankful that someone pointed me at a funny video. Maybe both.
- tlrobinson 17y agoI think that guidelines suggest that it shouldn't only be funny or cute, there has to be something more. In this case it's a pretty clever form of advertising, plus it's related to Google Chrome...
- eru 17y agoWe tend to have this discussion every few days. You will also see the "becoming reddit" thread every once in a while.