No Doodle For Me?!

June 10, 2011 2:54 PM

Why can't I ever "use" Google doodles?

Everyone around me is all "ooh" and "aah" over the latest Google doodle that features a playable guitar in honor of Les Paul.

I can see the doodle, but can't play it. When I mouse over it, nothing happens, and when I click on it, I get taken right to the Google search page for Les Paul.

Related: another recent doodle featured a playable Pac-Man -- and I couldn't play it.

My default browser is Chrome, but I've tried using FF and IE, too, to no avail.

Is my intarweb broken? Or is it me?

posted by davidmsc to Computers & Internet (7 answers total)

I had the same problem yesterday. Once I logged out of my Google account and tried again, it worked fine.
posted by jontyjago at 2:57 PM on June 10, 2011

Are you logged into iGoogle?
posted by GuyZero at 3:00 PM on June 10, 2011

Check your preferences and make sure Instant is off. If you want to use the keyboard make sure your cursor isn't in the search box when you type.
posted by tommasz at 3:09 PM on June 10, 2011

Also make sure that you don't have your browser set for https only. That limits which google sites you can see and interact with.
posted by gingerbeer at 3:52 PM on June 10, 2011 [1 favorite]

Also make sure you have the latest version of chrome.
posted by empath at 4:38 PM on June 10, 2011

Also, if you use a flashblocker, you'll have to turn it off (at least for this particular Google doodle).
posted by lesli212 at 5:34 PM on June 10, 2011

Is it possible you don't have flash installed?
posted by Patbon at 1:49 PM on June 11, 2011