Article by: Raphael LabuguenSo, Google wowed users with Buckyball on its logo, now here comes complaints..
We posted here a while ago the report about Google's way of celebrating the 25th year anniversary of the discovery of spherical molecule Buckminsterfullerine. I'm actually expecting to read praises and good comments, but surprisingly.. some Google users find it "irritating."
One commenter said, "The google buckball sucks spu cycles like crazy! My fan went on higher and I didn't know why, until I found my browzer was pulling 50% of the CPU. Dumb."
Another one said, "Absolute waste of time- watch it take 100% of your CPU doing absolutely NOTHING. That stupid idea will probably waste millions of watts of power, put hundreds of tons of CO2 unnecessarily into the atmosphere pinning computer CPUs all around the world for the next 24 hours. Awesome Google..."
I really have no idea if what are the browsers and computers that these commenters were using. And because I'm so curious about this said "problem," I tried Google's awesome Buckyball on two most popular browsers, the Safari and the Firefox.
Here's my recorded video of the Google's buckyball while using Safari:
Great job Steve Jobs, I mean, Apple. The movement of the buckyball is so good, try it in Safari! (I'm using a Macbook Pro with 2.26 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo)
And here's what the buckyball looks like when I used Firefox 3.6.8. I'm kinda disappointed:
The movement of the buckyball was not that smooth at first, but still good. Now here's my problem, I have no Internet explorer, and I decided not to use Google's browser 'Chrome' (to avoid the word BIAS).
So I read the comments again, and surprise! One commenter thinks the problem only happens to people using the lower versions of IE. The commenter said, "use a better browser. ie sucks."
I need more examples with this one, so if you're using internet explorer, especially the newer versions, can you give me some comments?
Congratulations Google, I really love this 'Buckyball' idea.
