Google - the noun not the verb

englishangel · Post by **englishangel** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 1:56 pm

For those of you who regularly google (the verb not the noun) you may have noticed the the logo at the top of the page changes from time to time.

Today (March 1st) the second O is a daffodil and the L is a leek.

Well done the folk at Google.

Katharine · Post by **Katharine** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 3:46 pm

At Christmas time, they spent several days building up the decorations, and at first it looked rather odd. I was sent a link which showed all the special treatments of the word Google for various holidays. I don't have that link now.

blondie95 · Post by **blondie95** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 5:37 pm

they do it a lot, change things on it and the look of it to relate to a story or news or something

englishangel · Post by **englishangel** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 12:18 pm

I have noticed the changes for various holidays, but a global company like Google, making something of St David's Day!, or is it done within the UK?

About 6 months ago (or perhaps longer) they had a competition for young people to design a new logo for Google ( I received an email from my schoolmaster bro-in-law asking me to vote for one of his student's entries) but it appears that they use them all.

Katharine · Post by **Katharine** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 2:43 pm

Well Google UK is not marking Mothering Sunday today, will have to see whether it marks Mother's Day in May.

Katharine · Post by **Katharine** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 6:26 pm

Mary you might like to look at this http://www.google.com/holidaylogos.html It doesn't show Dewi Sant (as he seems to be always called in Wales) yet; however they have not been consistent with what they celebrate.

englishangel · Post by **englishangel** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 8:27 am

Thank you Katharine

Katharine · Post by **Katharine** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 7:50 pm

Have you seen Alexander Graham Bell today? He wasn't there at lunchtime when I used my office computer so perhaps it depends on some American time zone.

sejintenej · Post by **sejintenej** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 9:09 pm

Katharine wrote:Have you seen Alexander Graham Bell today? He wasn't there at lunchtime when I used my office computer so perhaps it depends on some American time zone.

You posted at 8.50 but now 9.00 (2100 hrs zulu) he is there BUT

it depends on how you go into Google. I have a Google toolbar which doesn't show the specials. If I use it to search then the results don't show the specials. It is only when you go to their home page (including google.co.uk) when the specials appear. What a pity because Bell (today) and quite a number of others have been very good indeed. As for the leeks and daffodils I don't know if those were on google.com or only on google.co.uk or even if they created a special google.cymru (or Gymru

) website

In answer to another post, in several previous years they have had Mothers' Day specials but since only names and not dates are given in the galleries I don't know what dates they use. Unfortunately they ban links direct to the images but the link given elsewhere does allow access to the historical galleries

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