Third Annual Doodle 4 Google Contest
Feb 3, 2010 at 1:10pm ET by Barry Schwartz
Google announced their third annual Doodle 4 Google contest today. In this year's contest, the competition is around the theme, "If Could Do Anything, I Would..."
The prizes include, the logo being features on Google.com on May 27, 2010, plus receive a $15,000 college scholarship, a laptop computer and a $25,000 technology grant for their school. Your school must be registered by March 17, 2010 because only students from registered schools can enter. All doodles must be submitted by March 31, 2010.
For more details, click here.
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Filed in: Google: Logos, Google: Marketing
Google Logo For Norman Rockwell Saturday Evening Post
Feb 3, 2010 at 9:19am ET by Barry Schwartz
If you visit Google.com today, you will see a special doodle, aka logo, with a boy and a girl sitting on a bench together. The painting was one of Norman Rockwell's most famous, which was on the front cover of the Saturday Evening Post on April 24, 1926. It was known as the "Little Spooners."
Today is Rockwell's 116th birthday, which was on February 3, 1894. He was 20th-century American painter and illustrator and was best known for his cover illustrations on the Saturday Evening Post for over 40 years. [...]
Filed in: Google: Logos
Martin Luther King Day Logos From Google & Others
Jan 18, 2010 at 9:54am ET by Barry Schwartz
Today is Martin Luther King, Jr day and the search engines are showing off their logos and themes for the special day. Below you can see logos from Google, Yahoo, Bing and other search engines. In addition, check out the 2009 and 2008 logos, if you missed them the previous years.
Google's MLK Logo:
Yahoo's Flash MLK logo:
Bing's MLK Theme:
Ask.com's MLK Theme:
DogPile:
Search Engine Roundtable:
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Filed in: Ask: General, Google: Logos, Microsoft: Bing, SEM Industry: General, Yahoo: General
Google’s Issac Newton Apple Tree Logo
Jan 4, 2010 at 8:59am ET by Barry Schwartz
Those who visit Google.com today will be reminded that it is Issac Newton's birthday today. Issac Newton came up with the theory of gravitation and the story behind it. In short, the story was that Newton was sitting by or under an apple tree, when an apple fell from the tree. That is what sparked him to think of the force of gravity and come up with the theory of gravitation.
Google has gone further then they ever have in the past with this Google Doodle. They actually animated the Doodle, where the Apple falls off the Google logo and drops to under the search box. All this is, is [...]
Filed in: Google: Logos
Happy New Years 2010 Search Logos & Google’s Surprise
Dec 31, 2009 at 5:22pm ET by Barry Schwartz
Happy New Years! The Search Engine Land team would like to wish everyone a happy, healthy and successful 2010. Just for fun, I wanted to share the various logos from the search engines and also Google's surprise.
Let's start with Google's "I'm Feeling Lucky" count down to New Years. Remember when you hit the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button on Google.com, it would show you how many minutes to 2010? Well, when 2010 hits, it then shows you a fireworks display. Here is a video I made of it.
Now for the logos, which is basically a repost of my listing from the Search Engine Roundtable:
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Filed in: AOL: General, Ask: General, Google: Logos, Microsoft: Bing, SEM Industry: General, Search Engines: Baidu, Top News, Yahoo: General
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