Caving in to popular demand, search giant Google has given its hit "Les Paul" doodle – a playable digital guitar – a permanent home online.The decision came after Google initially extended for 24 hours the Les Paul doodle, but only in its United States site."Google’s Les Paul Doodle consumed an additional 5,350,789 hours of time versus the 4,819,352 hours consumed by the Pac-Man Doodle... Users did not spend much more total time at their computer than previous periods, but they did spend 10% more time at Google’s website than they typically would, meaning that the 10% more time spent at Google was stolen from other computer use time," it added."
Did you at least strum a little Bieber?If you thought Google's spectacularly popular doodle to commemorate guitar legend Les Paul was, like so many of its doodles, just a one day affair, you have no faith in the power of democracy.This thing has proved so popular--despite no doubt causing just the occasional office friction--that Google on Friday gave the doodle 24 hours of overtime.Even more hearteningly, the company took to its Twitter account to announce that you will be able to strum away at the virtual guitar ad infinitum.
In the spirit of giving, Google set up a permanent page which is accessible from today into internet infinity.The google doodle page, big fun for music lovers and wanna be artists, couldn't be more appropriate because Les Paul didn't read music. Many users truly fascinated with the google doodle guitar are music lovers who don't read music. Google advertised the birthday google as a way to get in touch with one's inner Les Paul. PC and web cam savvy users have recorded their plays for much longer. In essence, the Les Paul google doodle translates into hours of pc entertainment and music education.It's probably okay to admit here that I have zero guitar playing know how.