Google

Posted by: Dawn
Date: January 29, 2008 05:37AM

I love the way the 'Google' heading or insignia symbolises occasions.

Today it's like Lego bricks to symbolise the 50th anniversary of Lego Bricks.

Have they really been around that long? I can't believe it - wow time flies!!
Regards,
Dawn.

Re: Google
Posted by: Lorna
Date: January 30, 2008 03:59PM

Tell us where we can see this insignia, please, Dawn. I have Google as my search engine but that's all. I don't otherwise use Google.

Re: Google
Posted by: Dawn
Date: January 30, 2008 04:17PM

Oh Dear Lorna - you've missed it!! It's back to normal today! It was only there for 3, maybe 4 days. You will possibly have noticed in the lead-up to Christmas, that the little elves(?) decorated the "google" letters and day by day a little more decoration was added. Of course by Christmas Day it was looking in fine fettle.

They often have a cute little symbol incorporated into their google heading to signify a nationwide or worldwide event. Olympics was another occasion where there were fun decorations.

I'll let you know when I see the next one - before it disappears from sight and makes a liar out of me huh!
Regards,
Dawn.

Re: Google
Posted by: Jennifer1
Date: January 30, 2008 04:21PM

The Google logo/heading/insignia is simply the Google word, which is in colour (blue G, red o, yellow o, blue g, green l, red e) on the main search page. They often change it to match whatever event is happening on any particular day. If you scroll down two-thirds of this page [www.geekgirls.com] you'll see examples of what the Google word did for US Thanksgiving, Monet's birthday and Halloween. Sometimes the change to the word is very subtle, other times it stands out a lot and grabs your attention, like the Lego brick one. Here are a couple of interesting web pages about Google lego, etc.

[googletalk.blogspot.com]

[www.mocpages.com]


(oops, good morning, Dawn, we've posted at the same time )





Edited 1 times. Last edit at 30/01/08 04:22PM by Jennifer1.

Re: Google
Posted by: Dawn
Date: January 30, 2008 04:30PM

Morning J1. Good on you - I don't mind one bit - you've added a much broader and more interesting description to what I've written! I thoroughly enjoy opening Google to find a bit of titivation going on!
D1 ('i')

Re: Google
Posted by: Irene Field
Date: January 30, 2008 04:45PM

that was interesting thank you Dawn. Did you know Trademe do the same with their kiwi in the top left hand side - he had various Xmas guises over the Xmas build up, and last week was decked out in mountain gear for Sir Ed's funeral - I never noticed Google did it and I use it all the time - oops

Re: Google
Posted by: Dawn
Date: January 30, 2008 05:12PM

Hello Irene - no I didn't know Trade-me does it too - I'm not a regular T/m user though! I think it's neat that they should do it!

I have Google in my "links" and I click onto that when I want to do a search and that opens up the Google page and I do my search from that page. This way I see the "real" Google insignia and can see what if any events they are signifying.

I used to have the Google search bar up in the menu bar and I could do a gooooooogle search directly from there which eliminates opening up the gooogle page itself. I suspect maybe both you and Lorna do your google searches this way, and if so, you would then miss seeing the real google insignia.

Hope you can underkerstumble my interpretation!
Regards,
Dawn.

Re: Google
Posted by: judith
Date: January 30, 2008 05:50PM

I love checking the Google & Trademe sites to see what they have each day.They are very clever!!!

Judith

Re: Google
Posted by: Lorna
Date: January 31, 2008 03:04PM

You're right Dawn. I never open the Google page, I just have the little search box up in my menu bar, and I have the options of searching world-wide or only in NZ and for images, which I use a lot to find images to attach to my recipes in MasterCook.

Re: Google
Posted by: Dawn
Date: March 4, 2008 03:21AM

Lorna - Alexander Graham Bell (3 March 1847 - 2 August 1922) was an eminent scientist, inventor and innovator.

Here today Lorna if you're quick enough - maybe gone tomorrow!
Regards,
Dawn.