Google Image Swirl

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This is scary when applied to people: http://image-swirl.googlelabs.com/html?query=sarah%20palin (amusingly, a few layers in we end up at http://image-swirl.googlelabs.com/html?query=sarah%20palin#4... )

Now they've done Image Swirl in Flash. What is up with Google using Flash; they used to know it was crap.

they used to know it was crap

I'm sure the ~20k people working at Google span the entire spectrum of opinions one can have of Flash.

They use flash all over the place: Uploaders for most of their services, Audio Players, Street View, YouTube -- they probably have several custom flash development toolchains.

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