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From: TPiezas on 16 Jul 2010 03:49
Hello all,

Here's a tangential math note. Yesterday, Google Doodles featured the
Austria-born architect Josef Frank. I'm more familar with Frank Lloyd
Wright and I.M. Pei, so I clicked on the doodle.

One of the high results was the Wikipedia article (naturally).
Curious as to the amount of traffic this exposure got it, I went to
the view statistics page. The article normally got an average of less
than 20 views a day, but guess how much it was yesterday? It was 260
THOUSAND!

And that's just those who followed the Wikipedia link versus the
others, all of whom (including those who read this sci.math post) now
know who Josef Frank is. Whoever decides in Google what or who the
doodle will feature definitely has a great deal of influence in
shaping public views. At least momentarily.


P.S. I remember the 2009 doodle featuring the UFO in anticipation of
H.G.Well's birthday. Now that set off all sorts of wild speculation.
From a normal few thousand a day, it went to 1.3 MILLION hits on his
birthday, courtesy of Google.


- Titus
From: OwlHoot on 16 Jul 2010 03:57
On Jul 16, 8:49 am, TPiezas <tpie...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> ..
>
> Whoever decides in Google what or who the
> doodle will feature definitely has a great deal of influence in
> shaping public views.  At least momentarily.

Loads of people have the Google search page as their home page,
as it is so quick to load and a search is often the first thing
they want to do. So, yes, that doodle is "in their face" at the
outset.


Cheers

John Ramsden
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