Google doodles Halloween

October 31, 2012 6:06 AM

A Halloween doodle from Google. Be sure to click around, and save the kitty for last.
posted by doctornemo (19 comments total)

Delightful! Thanks for the kitty tip.
posted by Carol Anne at 6:10 AM on October 31, 2012 [1 favorite]

Oh, I missed it! (It's just after midnight on November 1st here and the doodle doesn't show up when I click your link or go direct to the Google homepage). Is there somewhere I can click through to to see it anyway?
posted by lollusc at 6:26 AM on October 31, 2012

I dressed my dog up as a cat for Halloween. Now he won't come when I call him.
posted by netbros at 6:27 AM on October 31, 2012 [5 favorites]

lollusc, here's a link to all the US doodles from 2012. Halloween isn't there yet, but perhaps it will be tomorrow?
posted by insectosaurus at 6:31 AM on October 31, 2012

KITTY!

Actually made an audible growl of delight at that animation, mid-office. Whoops.
posted by ominous_paws at 6:33 AM on October 31, 2012

TOMORROW? I can't wait until tomorrow! Someone said there's a KITTY.

(I should really go to bed.)
posted by lollusc at 6:34 AM on October 31, 2012 [1 favorite]

why are those disembodied boobs two different colors?
posted by nathancaswell at 6:44 AM on October 31, 2012 [1 favorite]

It doesn't show up for me either, though it's Oct. 31 here, and I use regular google.com no matter how insistently they try to make me use google.gr.

But I found it here.
posted by taz at 6:46 AM on October 31, 2012 [1 favorite]

Google doodles lost their charm for me when I read about the patent they have on them: Systems and methods for enticing users to access a web site. Get enticed!! There's a cat.
posted by arsey at 7:06 AM on October 31, 2012 [2 favorites]

I dressed my cat up as a cyclops for halloween. All I had to do was turn it around.
posted by HuronBob at 7:07 AM on October 31, 2012 [4 favorites]

...and the call was coming from the front page of Google!!!

...and hanging from the search bar was...a bloody hook!
posted by Mr. Bad Example at 7:20 AM on October 31, 2012 [3 favorites]

Wow - the patent arsey links to is absolute gibberish. there is so much wrong with that being patented. Sigh. But we've had this conversation before haven't we.
posted by samworm at 7:45 AM on October 31, 2012

Huh. I'm at the office and there is no animation. Boo. will try at home.
posted by pointystick at 8:19 AM on October 31, 2012

pointystick: "Huh. I'm at the office and there is no animation. Boo. will try at home."

I'm at the office and there is no sound. Double Boo!
posted by Big_B at 8:51 AM on October 31, 2012 [1 favorite]

arsey: Google doodles lost their charm for me when I read about the patent they have on them: Systems and methods for enticing users to access a web site. Get enticed!! There's a cat.

They've also patented ideas for the explicit purpose of preventing others from patent-squatting on ideas, so unless they've threatened to prosecute for it, I'd say give them the benefit of the doubt.
posted by IAmBroom at 9:03 AM on October 31, 2012

Nicely done: the quick rattling door sound at load to indicate what's clickable.
posted by ryanshepard at 9:55 AM on October 31, 2012

I'm in Belgium, my Browser is Chrome and I'm using a 10.7 macbookpro. Whenever I try to access google.com I'm redirected to google.be

Any idea on how I can force Google to display the US version of its home page, featuring the doodle ? Thanks in advance.
posted by Baud at 10:48 AM on October 31, 2012

Easter egg.
posted by ryanshepard at 12:18 PM on October 31, 2012 [1 favorite]

If you missed it (like I did):
http://www.google.com/doodles/halloween-2012
posted by acrunchysignal at 12:08 PM on November 1, 2012