400 Years Ago Galileo Invented The Telescope, Thanks Google

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 us of that time in […]

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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 us of that time in history.

Here is the Google Doodle:

galileo google doodle

You can read more about Galielo’s contributions and the telescope at his Wikipedia entry.


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Barry Schwartz
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Barry Schwartz is a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry can be followed on Twitter here.

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