Google: Logos

NASA said yesterday it had discovered water on the moon, and Google — always big on space exploration — wasted no time producing a special logo to celebrate the event. Google’s backing a contest to put a private rover on the moon. Who knows? Maybe one of those rovers will visit sources of…

Today is Halloween and the search engines have logos up for the special day. Before I post the logos, here are some posts from others in the community on Halloween. Matt Cutts of Google had a holy costume. Google Blogoscoped noticed Google added trick or treat to their robots.txt file. Bing…

Today is the 40th anniversary of Sesame Street and the 20th of Wallace and Gromit, the two beloved children shows. For the special day, Google has several logos (doodles) up at the various Google properties, depending on the local preference of show. Big Bird is the most noticed one and it is…

If you visit Google.com today, you will see a special logo for Veterans Day. The logo is less complex when compared to last years, where Google had to fix their Veterans Day logo. Last year, Google placed hats on top of each letter on the Google logo, the hats included Army, Navy, Air…

Today marks the official 40th anniversary for Sesame Street and Google is providing some of the logos they showed on Google.com for high resolution download over here. In addition, Google said they are a supporter of the non-profit Sesame Workshop. Google has been showing logos for the past…

Google has a special logo up on September 27, 2009 to celebrate their eleventh birthday. Here is the logo, which is available on Google properties where it is already Sunday. Happy Birthday Google! ....

Google is celebrating Confucius’ birthday with a new logo that has the Chinese philosopher standing in place of the “l” in Google’s regular logo. September 28, 551 BC, is traditionally recognized as Confucius’ birthday. Somewhat oddly, though, the Confucius doodle isn’t showing up on…

Today, a 140 years ago, Gandhi was born and Google wants you to know that. If you visit Google.com today, you will see a special logo for Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the political and spiritual leader of India during the Indian independence movement. The logo links you to a Google search result…

No, Google is not for sale. (At least as far as we know.) That barcode logo on the Google home page and its search results pages is in honor of the 57th anniversary of the barcode being patented: October 7, 1952 to Norman Woodland and Bernard Silver. If you’re thinking that Google’s really…

Today would have been Michael Jackson’s 51st birthday today. So Google has a special logo up for the day. Here is the logo: ....

Visiting Google today, you might notice a telescope as the Google logo. If you click on the logo, you are taken to a search result on Google for Galileo’s telescope. 400 year ago today, in the year 1609, Galileo Galilei demonstrated his first telescope. The Google logo, aka Doodle, reminds…

If you visit Google.com today, you may notice a special logo, or Google Doodle. The logo is to help drive awareness to the special Perseids meteor shower that is taking place today. In fact, the shower has been active for a few days now, but it is most visible today from areas around…

Google’s August 29th logo notes Michael Jackson’s birthday. Google has commemorated birthdays of many famous people and events, such as Luciano Pavarotti, Lego, and Dr. Seuss. ....

Google’s home page is featuring a Google Doodle for the birthday of Hans Christian Ørsted, who was born today on 1777. He is known for figuring out that a magnetic field can be induced by electric currents. In other words, he noticed that an electric current can make a compass needle move to…

Aliens in a flying saucer have abducted one of the Os out of the Google logo today. Normally when there are special Google logos like this, the holiday or special occasion is pretty clear. But this one is a stumper. What’s it for? I’m trying to find out more. Clicking on the logo brings up…