Comments on: Google’s Logo – Superheroes!

By: Brian W

Brian W — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:30:30 +0000

How about featuring Under-Dog? ~ how come the humble shoeshine boy is ALWAYS forgotten?!?!?

the greats are always looked over… grrrr…

By: Dani Atkinson

Dani Atkinson — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:21:10 +0000

Heck with Superman, I’m just delight to see Plastic Man in there! YAY! Plastic Man!

He is silly and makes me happy.

By: Big Freakin News

Big Freakin News — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 07:02:53 +0000

@Don MacPherson, click the link reading “Go to Google.com” if you automatically get redirected to http://www.google.ca.

Even so, however, I’m still not getting this nicely designed logo. Weird.

By: Don MacPherson

Don MacPherson — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 05:52:44 +0000

I feel left out up here in Canada. My browser automatically redirects from google.com to google.ca.

By: Kevin Lighton

Kevin Lighton — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 05:31:34 +0000

T-Mak is correct about the reason (alt text for the image on Google makes this clear).

The lack of Superman may just be that they couldn’t think of a way to put him into the image.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 04:10:21 +0000

Neat-looking logo, but as more of a Superman fan than a Batman one, I too would like to know why he’s not there. My guess: Batman’s probably seen as “cooler”/more popular (or from DC’s standpoint, more profitable) than Superman these days, especially with the large number of DVDs, movies and cartoons Bats currently has versus Supes only having “Smallville” (and “Superman Returns” from several years ago). Then again, if they found room for *Plastic Man*…

As for iGoogle, while I’ve been using My Yahoo since the 90s, I must admit the iGoogle comics theme looks pretty interesting… though not sure what advantages iGoogle would offer over My Yahoo…

By: Laura

Laura — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:53:31 +0000

Oh wow, that looks so freaking awesome! COOL BEANS!

By: T-Mak

T-Mak — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:09:25 +0000

It’s also comicon this weekend, I believe. Probably promoting that.

By: SKleefeld

SKleefeld — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:22:06 +0000

FWIW, I went through and spent a fair amount of time looking at different portal systems to use. I find it INFINITELY easier than trying to hit an ever-increasing list of bookmarks of pages which may or may not update regularly. I’ve made several posts on the subject; here are probably the most explanatory ones…
http://kleefeldoncomics.blogspot.com/2008/09/news-in-21st-century.html
http://kleefeldoncomics.blogspot.com/2008/08/online-comics-reader-part-2.html

By: Gail

Gail — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:01:41 +0000

I think the personalized comic home page is WAY COOL!!!!! G-R-E-A-T IDEA!!!

By: Johanna

Johanna — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:36:51 +0000

Oh, thanks for explaining that. I’ve kind of forgotten about the idea of a home page, since I just go wherever directly.

By: Joshua Macy

Joshua Macy — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:06:00 +0000

1) iGoogle is a personalize Google home page, where you can put widgets showing, e.g. your Google mail inbox, calendar, blog reader, news feeds, phase of the moon, etc. I use it as my browser home page.

2) Popeye! Yay!