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Those Crazy Kids at Google

Did anybody catch the Google homepage on Monday morning? For those of you who missed it… the illustrated Olympic swimmer was “pretty excited” to win the gold medal. (If you know what I mean.) Read more…


I know this has nothing to do with anything Mac related, but since Google has been in the news so much lately I thought it would be pretty funny.
This morning those crazy kids at Google updated their homepage with an illustrated olympic swimmer. It’s part of their olympic series of illustrations. For those of you who missed it the swimmer was… well, let’s just say he may have taken some performance enhancers.
I send an e-mail to most of my friends telling them to go to Google’s site and see what I was talking about. I got a lot of laughs and a few “oh my god”‘s, but shortly after my e-mail blast Google changed the illustration.
So, I decided to share Google’s before and after images with the rest of the group.
Before
After.
It’s nice to see “those crazy kids” at Google still have their sense of humor.

By Jason O'Grady

Founded the PowerPage in 1995.