Spokane’s Keyboard Cat gets top billing in Google Chrome app’s promo

Charlie Schmidt, one of Spokane’s most viral artists, got a nice little early present from Google this year.

The search giant and software company used Schmidt’s legendary web-craze Keyboard Cat in an online promo for the JAM app used with the Google Chrome browser.  See that promo at the link here . The app lets people from different computers play music together.

We didn’t ask how much Google paid him to use the cat and cat tune in the promo. It’s probably a decent figure.

Spokesman.com reporter Tom Sowa wrote about Charlie Schmidt’s continuing effort to patrol the web and find offenders who use Keyboard Cat without compensation to him. Here’s that story.