For Halloween, Google celebrated with an animated Google Doodle and Bing transformed its homepage into an interactive haunted house. Which search engine honored Halloween best?

Google’s Halloween doodle is decidedly tame, featuring a green witch pouring over an oversized book of spells, where the “Google” logo is etched in faux-eerie scrawl.

Press play and the witch stirs a bubbling potion. A bone, a corked vial, a skull and an apple appear in the four corners of the doodle.

For each combination of two ingredients, a mini game ensues – from “Find the Mummy in the Coffin” to “Bop the Zombie Hand.”

Bing, embracing the rich history of slasher films, set their homepage in a house of horrors. There’s a fuzzy-screened TV, a candle on a table, a jack-o-lantern on the stairs, a cracked door, a flickering hall light, lighting and tree shadows.

Click in the hallway and there appears The Shining twins:

Click on the TV a ball of light (Poltergeist) flies at the screen:

Click on the door and behind is the Psycho shower scene:

Click on the candle and Jason (Friday the 13th) appears. When the jack-o-lantern is clicked, a ghost (Halloween) manifests at the top of the stairs. After activating the movie references, a second click leads to a Bing search of the movie in question.

The Google Doodle certainly is cute and on-theme, but the games don’t work particularly well. Bing, meanwhile, employed flawless graphics on their homepage, incorporating iconography of well-known horror movies. Bing decidly bested Google in Halloween-themed searches.

– Chelsea Regan

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