Google’s Flying Saucer Logos Lead To H.G. Wells, Father of Science Fiction
Google has come clean on what all these flying saucers Google Doodles were about. It is to honor the 143rd birthday of H.G. Wells, the Father of Science Fiction, who’s birthday is today. We actually expected this logo to show up today. Many of the logos, Google tweets and evidence or hints, Google dropped, kind […]
Barry Schwartz on September 21, 2009 at 8:32 am | Reading time: 1 minute
Google has come clean on what all these flying saucers Google Doodles were about. It is to honor the 143rd birthday of H.G. Wells, the Father of Science Fiction, who’s birthday is today.
We actually expected this logo to show up today. Many of the logos, Google tweets and evidence or hints, Google dropped, kind of led to this. This is the first time Google actually put together a few logos to honor a single person’s birthday. Clearly, Google was having fun with this.
The previous logos were on September 5th and 15th. The 5th logo was named the unexplained phenomenon logo and the 15th was the crops circles logo.
For more coverage on this H.G. Wells logo, see Techmeme.
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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.