New holiday, new doodle

Jul 5, 2007 07:50 GMT  ·  By

Google has its own method to celebrate the special events from every corner of the world: it changes the logo displayed on the official page of the search technology in order to show the users from a certain country that Google cares about them. Yesterday, the United States celebrated the Independence Day, also known as 4th of July, a day that marked the separation between the US and the United Kingdom. It was obvious that Google wanted to celebrate in style and published a new doodle painted with the colors of the US national flag and showing an eagle instead of the second "g" letter.

Google has an interesting history concerning the doodles and their evolution. The first doodle appeared in 1999 when Larry Page and Sergey Bring created their own drawing to celebrate the Burning Man festival. It continued with Halloween, Thanksgiving and the holiday season in winter. However, the most popular doodle was published this year on Valentine's Day when the Mountain View company created quite a weird image because it showed "Googe" instead of Google. After one day of comments that Google misspelled the word, the search giant said that the "l" letter was actually a strawberry coated in chocolate.

The search giant has a special page to host all the doodles and allow the users view the older creations. "We have a variety of logos commemorating holidays and events. We've put them in this online museum for your amusement. Please do not use them elsewhere. And please, don't feed the kangaroo. If you would like to include a link to Google on your site, please use one of our official logo stickers," the company says.

Every once in a while the Mountain View company changes its logo but the main image of the company remains one of the most popular pictures on the Internet. According to Wikipedia, "the current official Google logo was designed by Ruth Kedar, and is a logotype based on the Catull typeface."