Feb 14, 2012 at 9:21am ET by Barry Schwartz

Google has a pretty sophisticated logo, aka Google Doodle, today on their home page for Valentine's Day. Also celebrating with special logos and home pages are Bing, Yahoo and even Baidu. The logo features Tony Bennett's Cold Cold Heart and an animated YouTube video representing love and Valentine's Day. Here is a video demo of the logo: What a pretty and warm logo! Google is not the only search engine with logos, we have logos from Yahoo, Bing, Ask.com, Dogpile, Baidu and others. Here they are: Past Search Industry Valentine's Day Logos: Google’s Va [...]

Related Topics: Ask: General | Google: Logos | Microsoft: Bing | Yahoo: General

Happy Thanksgiving Logos From Google, Yahoo, Bing & More

Nov 24, 2011 at 9:19am ET by Barry Schwartz

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! Below is a collection of the 2011 Thanksgiving logos and themes from the search engine industry. Including Google's logo , which went live a couple days ago, and logos from Yahoo, Bing, Dogpile, Ask.com, and others. Today will be a light coverage schedule on Search Engine Land. Enjoy the day and the time with family and friends! Google: Yahoo: Bing: Ask.com: Dogpile: Related Logos: Google Does Thanksgiving Logo Early, First Ever One Sharable On Google+ Pre-Thanksgiving Google Logo Leads To Chef Ina Garten Recipes [...]

Related Topics: Ask: General | Google: Logos | Microsoft: Bing | Top News | Yahoo: Marketing

Google’s Halloween Logo Made Up Of 6,000 Pounds Of Pumpkins

Oct 31, 2011 at 10:08am ET by Barry Schwartz

There is a special Google logo on Google for Halloween today, the logo is a video of Google's Doodle team carving the Google logo out of huge pumpkins. One of the pumpkins 1,298 pounds, and many of the others are over 1,000 pounds. Here is the video of the Google logo in action: Here is a video of the Google Doodle team making the logo: Google is not the only one with an animated logo for Halloween. Both Bing and Yahoo have animated logos or themes: Yahoo: Bing: Ask.com: Dogpile: For more logos from the search industry, see my other post over he [...]

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Ask.com Returns To TV With Spot Emphasizing Q&A

Oct 26, 2011 at 10:33am ET by Greg Sterling

Ask.com has a long history in TV advertising; some of it has been entertaining and some of it controversial. But the IAC-owned search engine was on a TV hiatus of sorts during the past couple of years. Now, according to AdWeek, the company is running new TV ads in San Francisco and Los Angeles. The ads reportedly focus on Ask's more recent positioning as a Q&A engine: The 15-second commercials emphasize the company’s new focus on fact-based answers to questions posed in everyday language, showing people asking things like “Where can I watch TV online for free?” and “Does speed [...]

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Ask.com Opens Up Its Human Q&A Community, Steps Further Away From Search

Sep 1, 2011 at 6:17pm ET by Matt McGee

After more than a year in beta, Ask.com today opened the doors on its community-based question-and-answer product. It positions Ask as much less search-oriented, and much more Q&A based -- not unlike its original incarnation in the 1990s. The Q&A site had been available in beta to a limited number of users since last July (2010) when Ask began to transition from search to Q&A. As you'll see on the third screenshot below, Ask says it has more than 344,000 people already in the Q&A community. At the time of the initial announcement last summer, the Ask.com homepage still had a search bar, [...]

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