Spooky Search Engines On Halloween

Oct 31, 2008 at 8:25am ET by Barry Schwartz

Google, Yahoo, Live, Ask, DogPile and many more are celebrating Halloween with special spooky logos or themes. Below you will find the logos and themes I spotted throughout the search industry.

Google seems to have totally ‘geeked out’ the fear in Halloween by adding spooky thoughts to their robots.txt file:

User-agent: zombies
Disallow: /brains

Without further ado, here are the logos and themes I found throughout the industry:

Google’s Halloween Logo:

Yahoo’s Halloween Logo:

DogPile’s Halloween Logo:

Live.com’s Halloween Theme:

Ask.com’s Halloween Theme:

FriendFeed’s Halloween Logo:

Cre8asite’s Halloween Logo:

The PPC Hero’s Halloween Logo:

Search Engine Roundtable’s Halloween Theme:

Both Yahoo and the Search Engine Roundtable have animated themes, so you may want to visit those sites today, to get the full show.

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.

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