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Google - the noun not the verb
Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 1:56 pm
by englishangel
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.
Re: Google - the noun not the verb
Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 3:46 pm
by Katharine
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.
Re: Google - the noun not the verb
Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 5:37 pm
by blondie95
they do it a lot, change things on it and the look of it to relate to a story or news or something
Re: Google - the noun not the verb
Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 12:18 pm
by englishangel
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.
Re: Google - the noun not the verb
Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 2:43 pm
by Katharine
Well Google UK is not marking Mothering Sunday today, will have to see whether it marks Mother's Day in May.
Re: Google - the noun not the verb
Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 6:26 pm
by Katharine
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.
Re: Google - the noun not the verb
Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 8:27 am
by englishangel
Thank you Katharine
Re: Google - the noun not the verb
Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 7:50 pm
by Katharine
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.
Re: Google - the noun not the verb
Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 9:09 pm
by sejintenej
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