Are Google Doodles Pointless?

As much as I love the way Google frequently posts an edited version of their multicoloured logo on their homepage, I think that modern software and browser technology is making them rather pointless. Why? The only way you can see the Google Doodle itself is to go straight to the homepage. But as strange as it sounds, the majority of people don’t search like that anymore.

Chrome and Firefox are the two main culprits. Firefox’s nail in the Google homepage coffin is a dedicated search box, while Chrome does its own developers no favour thanks to a two-in-one ‘Omnibar’ for addresses and searches. Search is etched into browsers, through address bars or dedicated search boxes, leaving Google’s actual Search homepage, as well as Doodles, in the dust. What a shame.

“Search is etched into browsers, through address bars or dedicated search boxes, leaving Google’s actual Search homepage, as well as Doodles, in the dust.”

While these direct searching tools are far easier to use than having to type in Google’s address and search through the actual website, it’s sucking a fun, much-loved tradition from the world’s biggest online software vendor.

Awesome would be an understatement if we could find a way to keep both the direct searching tools of browsers like Chrome and Firefox, while also having the Doodle on display somewhere.

I’ve suggested in the past that Google post the Doodle on the search results page as well as the homepage. They did do this once in my memory, and that was for the celebration of barcodes, funnily enough. If it’s possible to do it for one day, surely it’s not an impossibility to do it for other Doodles as well? Of course, there could be some sort of problem with posting it on every search results page in existence.

Nevertheless, I think the the search results of each Google query is based on a template with the search results and adverts displayed in their own little box streamed directly from a constantly-updated database. Therefore, displaying the Doodle in place of the regular Google logo on the search results as well as the Search homepage would be very effective.

Let me know what you think of this idea by posting a comment below!