Google’s Five Logos For Hans Christian Andersen

By Barry Schwartz

Published: April 2, 2010 at 7:57 am

Google is showing not one, but five Google logos, commonly known as Doodles, for Hans Christian Andersen 205th birthday. The Danish author and poet of Children’s books was born today in 1805. Some of his most famous works include include “The Steadfast Tin Soldier”, “The Snow Queen”, “The Little Mermaid”, “Thumbelina”, “The Little Match Girl”, and “The Ugly Duckling”.

I believe this is the first individual who has received five (more than one) Doodle, although there were other events that had multiple Doodles, I don’t think any one person had this Google honor.

Here are the five Doodles:

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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.

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