Richard Scarry Gets Google Logo

By Barry Schwartz

Published: June 5, 2011 at 11:32 am

Richard Scarrys 92nd Birthday

Today on Google is a special logo for the 92nd birthday of Richard Scarry. Richard Scarry was a popular children book author and illustrator who sold over a 100 million units and written over 300 books.

He was born today, June 5, 1919 in Boston and died on April 30, 1994 in Switzerland at the age of 74.

Google’s inside pages have a different version of this Doodle, it looks like this:

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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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