Spooky Search Engines On Halloween

By Barry Schwartz

Published: October 31, 2008 at 8:25 am

Google, Yahoo, Live, Ask, DogPile and many more are celebrating Halloween with special spooky logos or themes. Below you will find the logos and themes I spotted throughout the search industry.

Google seems to have totally ‘geeked out’ the fear in Halloween by adding spooky thoughts to their robots.txt file:

User-agent: zombies
Disallow: /brains

Without further ado, here are the logos and themes I found throughout the industry:

Google’s Halloween Logo:

Yahoo’s Halloween Logo:

DogPile’s Halloween Logo:

Live.com’s Halloween Theme:

Ask.com’s Halloween Theme:

FriendFeed’s Halloween Logo:

Cre8asite’s Halloween Logo:

The PPC Hero’s Halloween Logo:

Search Engine Roundtable’s Halloween Theme:

Both Yahoo and the Search Engine Roundtable have animated themes, so you may want to visit those sites today, to get the full show.

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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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