Google Adds Christmas & Hanukkah Decorations To Search Results
If you go to Google and search for variations of either [christmas] or [hanukkah], you will see Google has dressed up the search results page with holiday decorations. The Christmas version shows Christmas ornaments hanging from the top bar: The Hanukkah version shows Jewish stars across the top bar: In the past they placed these […]
Barry Schwartz on December 21, 2011 at 3:11 pm | Reading time: 1 minute
If you go to Google and search for variations of either [christmas] or [hanukkah], you will see Google has dressed up the search results page with holiday decorations.
The Christmas version shows Christmas ornaments hanging from the top bar:
The Hanukkah version shows Jewish stars across the top bar:
In the past they placed these decorations as a border for separating the AdWords ads and the free organic results.
Hanukkah started last night and Christmas is just around the corner.
I still do not see any decorations for [kwanzaa] – but that might come soon.
Postscript: Shortly after this post, Google added the Kwanzaa decorations:
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Barry Schwartz is a technologist and 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.
In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.
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In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.
Barry can be followed on X here and you can learn more about Barry Schwartz over here or on his personal site.