![]() It’s fair to say this is definitely not one of the better showings from the Google Doodle team. Over the coming weeks, join calico (c)athlete Lucky as she explores Doodle Champion Island: a world filled with seven sport mini-games, legendary opponents, dozens of daring side quests, and a few. ![]() The entire premise of the Doodle seems pretty half-assed as well, because there’s nothing we can find online that suggests today has any particular historical relevance to pirates, let alone some decisive event in which they were “defeated.” We’d hoped clicking on the Doodle might pull up some websites that would clarify what specifically they meant by that vague mouseover text, but doing so just takes you to the search results for the word ‘history,’ a detail that removes any lingering doubt we had that this pirate drawing is a result of Google scrambling to get something, anything out the door. ![]() Whether it’s a charming portrait of an under-appreciated historical figure or a full-blown interactive browser game, Google Doodles almost always display a professional level of polish, but today’s extremely slapdash sketch of a few barely recognizable pirate guys suggests that the team was forced to cut more than a few corners to meet their deadline.
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