It’s 31st of December, the day that brings us to the end of the year 2011! The year has been quite an eventful and painful one. We lost a lot of great people, we saw riots across the world and even a revolution, nature showed its anger and everyday we fought a new battle. Today we can move ahead with the hope that 2012 will be better because hope is what drives us and hope is what lets us live!
Google’s showed off its New Year 2012 doodle today on the search page along with a link to a video on the best moments of 2011 titled Google Zeitgeist 2011: Year in Review. In the video they go over a lot of events including egypt’s liberation, greece riots, demise of Steve Jobs, the great royal wedding, killing of Osama Bin Laden and ofcourse Rebecca Black! Where quite a few events were covered, a lot of other important one’s were missed out like London Riots, demise of Dennis Ritchie (seems like everyone forgot that!), australian disasters…and others. For a company like Google, its easy to hurt people’s sentiments and I hope this video does not lead to issues.
Though one can argue that a year is a lot of events and not all can be covered in a 2:52 min video, its not justifiable to miss the most important events. Where at one end the video is quite shaky and one might end up wondering whether we are on a losing streak, at points it also seemed too focused on Google’s products! Would have loved the attempt and the notion had the video been simple and talked about just what it was meant for!
“Google, though of-course you cannot make everyone happy and I appreciate the video collage…it does seem like the video lacked proper judgement and seems to have been completed in haste.”
Even the doodle lacks to impress me this time…! Looking forward to a great year with all of you folks…and HOPE…
What was the most important event of your life in 2011? Do leave a comment below.
Watch the video below if you haven’t yet. Also, google has collaborated this year search data to make a lot of sense…see how the World Searched with Google’s 2011 Zeitgeist: http://googlezeitgeist.com
