Google Users Complain Over Nifty ''Ballsy'' Logo

cpu usage spiked for me maybe 2-4%. non issue

"However a Google spokesperson clarified, saying that it's "fast, fun and interactive, just the way we think search should be" without specifying further details. "
So this animation makes the search faster somehow?

Interesting how it is. I use Google as my home page. Having a different logo every once in a while is interesting. I quickly discovered the behavior of the balls was influenced by my mouse. Since I navigate away from the page rather quickly, I enjoyed the moving colored balls. What is wrong with people, that the don't have a sense of humor?

No spike.
You have to click on it to start it.
Lasts until you submit the search.
Freaking whiners... Geez.

My logo is still exactly the same. No balls at all.

One of Google's best yet! No other company has the "balls" (pun intended) to play around with their logo like Google does. Like them or hate them, but they deserve a tip of the hat for their innovation and sense of humor. Go Google!!!

30-40% cpu usage with that site on a core 2 duo??? thats insanity. my pentium M (1.73 ghz with 1 gb ram) had no issue with the site, and i also was running mediamonkey and 5 or 6 other tabs in google chrome... its fun and entertaining the new logo

It gave me a shock this morning seeing those balls. LOL

40-60% P4
10-16% Laptop T9600
1-3% Q9550
0-2% i5 655k

This will bother most people

I thought that usage was silly too, but I can confirm, I tested it, and it put my old work P4 at over 60% in IE8. Though its got the crappy onboard video. Not that I mind, as others said, I'm there for all of 10 seconds usually.

Hint to users complaining about this: STOP USING IE. Of course there are consequences when you're using a browser whose JS handling is literally 10x slower than everybody else.

I like it. It's nifty

If I bang "www.google.com" into Firefox it indeed starts the ball logo animation right away. Those of you saying that it's IEs fault, Firefox shows high CPU usage too. Those that say it's not on by default, this is the defaultest browser and it starts as soon as the page is loaded, no input required.

I tested it on my Core2 Duos the CPU usage spikes to about 24% while playing with but then drops back to 0-1% when the balls all come back to the center. That happens in IE8 and Chrome. Firefox took it to 30% max before dropping to 0-1% again.

I think it's actually a pretty nice example of what can be done without Flash these days. It's also not at all difficult to deal with the CPU usage for the maybe 5 seconds you might have to deal with it before moving away from the page. But then again it might be hard to deal with wanting to play around with it for several minutes.

As far as I'm concerned, the new logo is unprofessional. It honestly makes me feel like I'm at some spoof site and not really at the legit Google website. Not to mention, I just find it annoying.

The logo distorts even if I simply move the cursor into the text box. I don't even have to touch the logo for it to flip out. Ultimately, what this means for Google is that the 10 seconds the person spends at the Google main page, their logo is present for perhaps 1 of those 10 seconds.

Bad for brand recognition.

Spikes 2-4% on my laptop... and is clever and gets your attention. I'd say it's a win for Google. No matter what a company does, there's someone out there who's going to complain about it.

Using a Dell business computer, loaded with a Core 2 Duo E6550 I had a max of 39% CPU usage playing with the new Google logo. Average was about 33% just watching it with Windows XP Task Manager.

This was with Outlook, a point of sale program, and a database program open in the background behind Firefox. Not taxing on this machine. However, for folks with older machines that have not been formatted, de-fragged, virus scanned, etc for years.... this could be crippling.

edit... now 2-4% for Firefox (with balls of different sizes that are changing size like they're getting closer to you). 7% for IE8 (balls are all the same size and don't change size... but there are more of them).

No issues for me with it. I found it kind of cool actually.

works on my N900s 600mhz arm cortex, how is it stressing c2d's?

nifty.

If your computer is capable of running Windows 7 at usable speeds then the new Google logo won't slow down your computer at all. There's not a single business or individual on the planet that absolutely MUST use Google. Really, Google should have animated backgrounds like Myspace along with either Adobe Flash or HTML 5 animations. Because you can never have too much eye candy and this sort of this won't slow down the vast majority of computers still in use out there.

so what if the cpu is at 50-60-70% for a couple of seconds? Nobody is making you to stay and play with your balls.

Uses 30%-40% CPU on my 2.0 GHz Athlon II mobile. I don't really care; even after it takes up most of one core, I still have another available! In Firefox 4b4 w/D2D hardware acceleration enabled, it runs very smoothly. Really cool looking, too!

It's like a game! You can disrupt the balls and get a few moved into the corner of the screen with your cursor, then move the cursor around to keep the balls cornered like a sheepdog herding sheep.

Seriously? I think if that animation is taking up that much CPU it's time to upgrade your PC. My system jumps 2% when going to Google. A new CPU costs, what, like 50 bucks?

Task manager says about 100% on my P4 when they are flying all over the place. And no, you don't have to click it to get it to start...at least I don't. I'm using Firefox with nothing else open BTW. I'm sure it'll go back to normal in a few days so no worries. It doesn't actually seem to slow anything down anyway.

its awesome and fun and brightly colored thanks google!

Wow, that's kind of cool. I would have never seen it if it wasn't for this article though. I almost never go to the main Google page. I either go straight to Gmail or I type my search query into the address bar of Chrome.