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Google Gravity Sends Google Crashing Down (PICTURES)

Huffington Post   First Posted: 08/24/10 04:13 PM ET Updated: 05/25/11 06:25 PM ET

Google Gravity

Whatever goes up must come down: It's the general rule of gravity.

It's also the premise of Google Gravity, a site that applies the laws of physics to the familiar Google home page.

Google Gravity looks just like Google, with the normal search bar and logo rooted firmly in place. All the links work, but the search bar, mysteriously, does not accept letter input. Mouse over the page, and, after a few seconds, the logo, the search bar and all the links will come crashing down to the bottom of the page, where they bounce around in a jumbled heap.

Below is an image of a normal-looking Google home page. But don't be fooled; it's actually Google Gravity.

And here you see the page after it has succumbed to "gravity."

What a mess! But all the links still work, so you can go ahead with your usual searches, once you've figured out which links are which.

Try it out for yourself here. (For the best viewing experience, we recommend using Google Chrome to launch the site.)

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Whatever goes up must come down: It's the general rule of gravity. It's also the premise of Google Gravity, a site that applies the laws of physics to the familiar Google home page. Google Gravit...
Whatever goes up must come down: It's the general rule of gravity. It's also the premise of Google Gravity, a site that applies the laws of physics to the familiar Google home page. Google Gravit...
 
 
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05:09 PM on 08/25/2010
The gravity demo is a nice metaphor for what happens when you kick the legs out from under your business model by violating customer trust. I've changed my mind. I like it.

(After seeing it in action I now realize it is HTML5. Apple wins again.)
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03:29 PM on 08/25/2010
Google is cool. After they sell your browsing history and personal information to advertisers, and sell out the Internet to Verizon, they make a clever game and hope you are stupid enough to forget. Awesome. I could be amused by such 1989-era html cleverness all day.
02:49 PM on 08/25/2010
OK, but the links still work. Google News, business, etc.
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Freedom Rush
freedom is the oxygen of the soul
10:09 AM on 08/25/2010
all the hype in world isn't going to bring me back
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rgilley
08:37 AM on 08/25/2010
Boycot Google and Verizon and keep the internet open !!!
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03:24 PM on 08/25/2010
Agreed. 100%.
10:05 PM on 08/24/2010
Mildly entertaining for about two minutes
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eri 68
Hello, hello .. is this thing on?
03:43 PM on 08/24/2010
You can type in the search box once it lands on the bottom. lol