Comments on: Artsy side of search: Designers, pop stars create iGoogle themes

New campaign from Mountain View draws attention to iGoogle personalized home pages by introducing "themes" designed by artists and pop culture figures.

[Chukwudi]

This is Great

I haven't seen every theme from Google, but as an art teacher I think this rocks. I literally did a lesson on Jeff Koon's "Michael Jackson and Bubbles" a few weeks ago for my high schoolers and they were very intrigued by it.

As usual, way to Go Google? Or Way to Google go?

[Chukwudi]

One more thing...

And yeah - I dislike the word "artsy" and the phrase "artsy fartsy" - it never made sense to me even as a kid.

[coolrepublica]

Google stole My Idea

I'm a bit upset at this because it was my idea and I explicit
demand for Google using it and they stiffed me.

Here is my idea as I proposed it 6 months ago on the New York
Times Blog about google and yahoo using. It was the first
comment.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/13/inbox-20-yahoo-
and-google-to-turn-e-mail-into-a-social-network/

"For your grand launch of the IGoogle social network have
Takashi Murakami design themes exclusively for IGoogle. He is
expensive but Google can afford him and trust me people will
sign up in drove just to have his themes as their background on
IGoogle. Of course there are many other famous underground
and main stream artists that would get a great response as well.

If Google decides to use my ideas, I want a tour of Googleplex
and I want to meet Sergey and give him a haircut. These are my
terms and I?m not budging.
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coolrepublica"

I'm sure someone at Google got a bonus for proposing this idea
to their boss. I hope they choke on it.