Event speculation
According to PR Media Blog, the 7 September date could mark the date the first TV camera tube picture was transmitted. While this may not be earth shattering news in itself, Google is rumoured to be holding a press conference in San Francisco tomorrow with maybe people hoping the search giant may unveil its Google TV offering or at least have more news on Google Goggles.
Interestingly the doodle is only believed to appear on Google Germany and Google UK, which may dispel the San Francisco event theory...but who knows.
However, there is rumoured to be a Google.com version for the main site, which presumably might appear later, but speculation is growing the little doodle might be a PR stunt in preparation for a big announcement.
Yet while most people will be excited (or at least slightly intrigued) by the latest doodle, according to ZDNet, the blobby interactive offering is a ‘resource hog'.
The website estimates the doodle consumes some 40 percent of a user's CPU when the spheres are moving and a staggering 45-50 percent in Firefox. However, it is believed to be more efficient if the user is a Chrome devotee, eating up around 25 percent of CPU.
It also said the HTML5 code produces different results in different browsers, with bigger and sharp blobs for Chrome, crude and jerky blobs for Firefox and smaller nicely rendered spheres for Internet Explorer 8.
