Google Celebrates First Day Of Summer With Solstice Logo

By Barry Schwartz

Published: June 20, 2008 at 12:55 pm

Google has a special logo up today in honor of the summer solstice, AKA the first day of summer. The solstice is when the “Earth’s axis is most oriented toward or away from the Sun, causing the Sun to reach its northernmost and southernmost extremes,” according to Wikipedia

Danny is actually out at Stonehenge for the solstice, and those who want a taste of it should see his Tips For Summer Solstice @ Stonehenge 2008 post on his personal blog, Daggle.

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Barry Schwartz

Barry Schwartz is a technologist and a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics.

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.

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