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Play The Frank Zamboni Google Doodle

Published: January 16, 2013 at 9:16 am

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Published: Jan 16, 2013, 9:16 am · 1 min read

Written by Barry Schwartz

Google has a special worldwide logo, aka Doodle, for Frank Zamboni’s 112th birthday. The interactive Doodle allows searchers to play the Zamboni game by cleaning the ice after it is being used by children, hockey players and ice dancers. Frank Zamboni invented the Zamboni ice resurfacer in 1949, and it’s found on virtually every ice […]

Google has a special worldwide logo, aka Doodle, for Frank Zamboni’s 112th birthday. The interactive Doodle allows searchers to play the Zamboni game by cleaning the ice after it is being used by children, hockey players and ice dancers.

Frank Zamboni invented the Zamboni ice resurfacer in 1949, and it’s found on virtually every ice skating rink across the world.

Here is a video of me playing the game:

This is an extremely fun Google logo, one of the few game oriented Google logos we’ve had.

Past Interactive Google Logos:

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About the Author

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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