Today my dad called me and complained that when he opens the browser, a "Game with creatures" comes up and he wanted to close it. Although I had seen the google home page by that time, initially I thought it was some advertisement popup. I asked him to look for an "X" button in the corner and he couldn't find one (other than the close button of the browser window)! After he explained more about the "game" only I realized he was in the Google home page as I have set the home page to google on his browser. I told him to ignore the game and carry on his work.
Google's changing icons are cool. But they have to do it in a subtle way without distracting users. Although we geeks barely notice any inconveniences caused by these things for other's who haven't even heard of PacMan, they are very distracting and often panic-causing situations.
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