Google Celebrates Freddie Mercury’s 65th Birthday With Google Logo

By Barry Schwartz

Published: September 5, 2011 at 9:54 am

Freddie Mercury

Today on most Google properties you will see a special logo, video logo, for Freddie Mercury’s 65th birthday. Freddie Mercury is most well known as the lead vocalist for the popular band, Queen. He was born today in 1946 and died from bronchopneumonia brought on by AIDS on November 24, 1991.

The logo is seen on most Google properties but not on Google.com, because today in the United States is Labor Day. Instead, as Google said, this logo will be available on Google.com tomorrow, in respect for Labor Day. On Google.com today is a small American Flag.

Here is the interactive video logo for Freddie Mercury, which some of you will see today on Google and American’s will see tomorrow:

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About the author

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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