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 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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Related Topics: Channel: Consumer | Google: Logos | Google: User Interface


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    Why not new year and Pongal? Just for Fun..

    Its amazing.. The search creates a festive mood…

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