Google Gets Crop Circles Logo, Flying Saucer Steals The “L”

Sep 14, 2009 at 9:07pm ET by Barry Schwartz

Currently, most Google search properties that are currently in a time zone that is September 15th, such as Google UK, are sporting a special Google Doodle that links to a search result for crop circles. It seems likely this logo will appear in the US soon.

The logo shows a flying saucer above a series of crop circles that spell Google. Well, almost — the L has been abducted. That similar to the last Google flying saucer logo from ten days ago, where an O was taken.

If you look at today’s logo’s file name, it’s goog_e.gif — reflecting the missing L. The last logo was go_gle.gif – reflecting the missing O. So that’s O, then L — what are they going to spell?

Postscript: If you look at the coordinates Google tweeted, you will see some added information about the location. Specifically, “Woking … is the town in which the Martians first land in H. G. Wells’ science fiction novel The War of the Worlds.” HG Well has his 143rd birthday coming up this September 21st, so maybe the mystery will be solved on that day?

Related Topics: Google: Logos | Top News

About The Author: Barry Schwartz is Search Engine Land's News Editor and owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry's personal blog is named Cartoon Barry and he can be followed on Twitter here. For more background information on Barry, see his full bio over here. See more articles by Barry Schwartz

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10 Comments on Google Gets Crop Circles Logo, Flying Saucer Steals The “L”

hotpads, September 14th, 2009 at 10:33 pm ET:

I think there is a tractor in that image in the process of making the L in the crop circle.

coyotefeather, September 15th, 2009 at 1:00 am ET:

umm id like to buy a vowel!!! lol :P

bugmen0t, September 15th, 2009 at 1:10 am ET:

“the L has been abducted”….Well look again!!! I think hotpads got the idea. The Tractor is making the L.

StoneOz, September 15th, 2009 at 2:54 am ET:

bahaha,. i think if any conspiracy to to the images ,. perhaps a message tht soon letters or ppl start disapearing, not because of abductions,. but Ascention,. tbh the whole O,L wat tht spell? ,. well wat could google be analgramed as,. buggered if i know,. but i do know more ppl tht unconditionally Consistently Love ,. Seat the energy in thier chakra & open thier pineal gland & mer ka bah outta here.. Peace & Love~ <3

Matt23, September 15th, 2009 at 5:14 am ET:

http://bit.ly/4kVxJi

glennmor1, September 15th, 2009 at 10:51 am ET:

I would assume from the letters, it may eventually spell LOGO. Interesting to see what goes missing next..

ned, September 15th, 2009 at 11:25 am ET:

I think that the next letter to go will be “A”. Like an evil ET I think AOL will be seen again.

rodsbot, September 16th, 2009 at 6:06 am ET:

You could see a Crop Circle collection from Google Earth here : http://www.rodsbot.com/google-earth-crop_circle-0.htm

tag44, September 16th, 2009 at 8:32 am ET:

Must be the UFO in the space saucer eaten up or stolen the Google letter L