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Google Shows Colorless Logo To Chinese Users Over Qinghai Earthquake

This afternoon, I mentioned at the Search Engine Roundtable that Google Hong Kong was showing a white Google logo. The logo showed up a week or so ago on Google Poland as well. A Google spokesperson told me the logo is only displayed when Google wants to recognize a “current loss or tragedy.” Today the […]

Barry Schwartz on April 20, 2010 at 7:19 pm
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This afternoon, I mentioned at the Search Engine Roundtable that Google Hong Kong was showing a white Google logo. The logo showed up a week or so ago on Google Poland as well. A Google spokesperson told me the logo is only displayed when Google wants to recognize a “current loss or tragedy.” Today the logo is on Google China and Hong Kong over the earthquake that occurred in Qinghai.

Google told me:

From time to time we show a special colorless logo on our homepage in recognition of a current loss or tragedy. Users in Poland recently saw this muted logo, and now we’re showing the logo to users in China and Hong Kong to pay our respects to the victims of the Qinghai Earthquake. We are saddened by the loss of life and great damage caused by this natural disaster, and our thoughts are with the people of Qinghai, China.

I do not know exactly when Google first used the white or colorless logo but first reports seem to indicate on April 13th at Google Poland.

Hat tip Michel Wester.

Postscript: Google confirmed the first time they used the colorless logo was last week on Google Poland.

It is also my understanding that Google would only use such a logo when the government declares a national state of mourning or something equivalent to that.

Postscript 2: Baidu also has a colorless logo:

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About The Author

Barry Schwartz
Barry Schwartz 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. Barry's personal blog is named Cartoon Barry and he can be followed on Twitter here.

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