Google’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Logo

By Barry Schwartz

Published: January 17, 2011 at 8:46 am

Today Google has a special logo on Google.com for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

Today would be his 82nd birthday celebration. Technically, Martin Luther King, Jr. was born on January 15th, but the United States celebrates the first Monday after his birthday as a national holiday for his leadership during the African American civil rights movement. In 1964 he received the Nobel Peace Prize, at that time, he was the youngest person to ever receive the prize.

Mr. King was assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee.

Here is a larger version of the logo on Google’s home page:

Yahoo, Bing and Dogpile also have special logos and designs, as I noted. Here they are:

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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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