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Here's a screenshot. Sorry for forgetting you foreign folks. http://i.imgur.com/JBf8B.jpg http://i.imgur.com/JBf8B.jpg

• marquis 15y ago
  Is that all they did? A skewed blacked out logo? I hardly saw it. I was hoping for something a little more dramatic rather than something I would pass off as a glitch on the internet.
  • lonnyk 15y ago
    FWIW the homepage looks like this: http://imgur.com/bHRRa http://imgur.com/bHRRa
  • gry 15y ago
    The home page is jarring. http://imgur.com/aLjTP http://imgur.com/aLjTP
    • snprbob86 15y ago
      I love the little hint of a letter sticking out. It reminds you what used to be there, but is now censored. Meanwhile, it also establishes a subtle metaphor: censorship just covers the problem up, rather than fixing it.
    • lusr 15y ago
      TBH I never visit the homepage anymore (I never see the cool logos people end up talking about; I start up with about:blank for performance). I just search straight from the address bar, and in that respect the small logo change in the search results doesn't seem very effective at making a statement. I assume enough other people still visit the homepage for it to matter, though?
      • lusr 15y ago
        Interesting, 3 downvotes. Anybody want to explain why my criticism is so invalid? Google is trying to sell a message and is doing it in a much more understated way than some others sites. Not that I think it would have been a wise idea to censor the entire site, like Wikipedia, but it's interesting to wonder about the effectiveness of the option they chose. Most of the people here are ultimately interested in selling someone something using technology, and here is a successful technology company trying to sell a message in a way that is worth examining.
      • waxjar 15y ago
        I hate to generalise, but in my personal experience people that are somewhat less computer literate do indeed visit the homepage to search. I've seen my parents do it countless times, even though I told them searching from the address bar is possible. My guess is that precisely these people are less likely to know about SOPA and its implications. It raises the question, would these people notice the logo change and would they even be bothered to check out what it means?
        • lusr 15y ago
          Hmmm that's a good point. I already know what I'm looking at, and the significance, so I'm not really in the target audience. I also don't live in the US, so I had to proxy through one of my servers to see what the effect was like. That brief exposure I had probably isn't quite the same as seeing it throughout the day, as Americans will.
    • twodayslate 15y ago
      Offtopic but how do you get that top bar? I just have the standard dark skinny bar.
      • josso 15y ago
        Go to the comments of this article and copy-paste the javascript: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2011/11/how-to-try-googles-new-navigation-menu.html http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2011/11/how-to-try-googles-...
      • GFischer 15y ago
        Actually I miss the standard dark skinny bar, now it takes one click more to go to my email. I got mine when I switched Gmail to the new look and started using Google+ but maybe it was just a coincidence.
    • ge0rg 15y ago
      From imgur: We have blacked out Imgur today from 8am to 8pm, EST [...] Another mirror: http://www.welt.de/multimedia/archive/01548/toto_sopa_googl_DW_1548876a.jpg http://www.welt.de/multimedia/archive/01548/toto_sopa_googl_...
  • Vivtek 15y ago
    I think that's enough to get the attention of the public. Lots of people - like my kids - notice the special Google logos.
  • mvgoogler 15y ago
    If you click on the blacked out logo it takes you to a page with information about SOPA/PIPA.
  • kabuks 15y ago
    I think it's classy. Top story on google news is the blackout. Everybody's eye is now on the ball.
  • rednum 15y ago
    I thought they would also change all colours in search page to black/gray, I believe it would make it more noticable