Google debuted a new bouncing balls logo on its homepage on Monday, September 7, 2010. The new animated Google logo features a group of different colored balls that bounce around the page for a few seconds and then joining together to form the Google logo. If a user puts a cursor over the red, blue, green and yellow balls (the traditional colors found in the Google logo), they fly apart and begin once again bouncing around the search window area. The logo apparently uses HTML5 and JavaScript.http://www.pcworld.com/article/204923/whats_up_with_googles_bouncy_ball_logo.htmlhttp://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2010/09/07/129695020/google-s-logo-turns-to-bouncing-balls-for-anniversary

Reports differ on the reason for the interactive, bouncing balls Google logo. Some media outlets speculated that the logo was designed by Google to commemorate the company's birthday.http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2010/09/07/129695020/google-s-logo-turns-to-bouncing-balls-for-anniversary Google was incorporated on September 7, 1998. Other reports suggest that the bouncing balls logo from Google was created to mark the 15th anniversary of JavaScript.http://www.pcworld.com/article/204923/whats_up_with_googles_bouncy_ball_logo.html

The Google bouncing balls logo, described by some as a "particle movement simulator," is not the first interactive, animated Google logo to debut in 2010.http://www.pcworld.com/article/204923/whats_up_with_googles_bouncy_ball_logo.html In January of 2010, Google debuted an interactive, falling apples logo on its homepage to mark the 367th birthday of Sir Issac Newton.http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/Horizons/2010/0104/Isaac-Newton-Why-apples-are-falling-on-Google-today In May of 2010, Google launched a playable Pac-Man logo to celebrate the video game's 30th anniversary.http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2364106,00.asp And on September 4, 2010, the traditional Google doodle became an interactive "buckyball" - a carbon molecule discovered on September 4, 1985.http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/sep/04/google-doodle-buckyball-anniversary