google logos

http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/02/google_logo/1_logo_predesign.jpg
http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/02/google_logo/2_logo_predesign.jpg
http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/02/google_logo/3_logo_predesign.jpg

http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/02/google_logo/4_logo_predesign.jpg
http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/02/google_logo/5_logo_predesign.jpg
http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/02/google_logo/6_logo_predesign.jpg

http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/02/google_logo/7_logo_predesign.jpg
http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/02/google_logo/8_official_googlelogo.jpg

It just got worse and worse.

I like the fourth one.

i like the aqua l

The shadow is ludicrous.

Actually the fifth one would be the best if not for the smiley face.

goggle loogos

http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/7512/imageuploadimagecb6.gif
http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/1788/imageuploadimagekz6.gif
http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/1691/imageuploadimagejs9.gif

http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/6338/imageuploadimagejq6.gif
http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/4813/imageuploadimageev5.gif
http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/2451/imageuploadimagepb7.gif

fuck branding people. add serious meaning to a really simple idea and you make a shit ton of money.

Branding is important for a small struggling company that needs every edge it can get. The Google logo is anti-brand in exactly that sense: Our ideas are so good, we don't need a fancy-pants logo. However, Google is definitely brand-conscious at this stage. Note the disappearance of "Froogle", for instance. Pretty soon, YouTube will be Google YouTube and then Google Tube and then long after Google Video has been buried, just that.

froogle was mad gay

Froogle was playful, mad gay or no. Google is long past the point of that kind of playfulness now.

http://base58.com/ilx/googleneo.gif

(would be OK, esp at small size, but no good for the holiday variations)

Has Google always had a logo in the address bar or is this new as of today? (I'm talking about the lowercase "g.")

Yes, but it got changed today: http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-05-30-n48.html

Fuck knows why.

google pathos

i still have an uppercase g

Favicon. That's the word I was trying to think of. Anyway, I'd like to register my dislike of the new one. Divorced from the whole word, it just looks like a purple number 8.

oh wait google.com is an uppercase G but everything else is lowercase

greasemonkey for the win: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/27548

Hmmm, that Favicon Picker seems to work for adding a favicon to bookmarks, but it doesn't change the default favicon in the address bar or on tabs when you open a website.

i like the borderless look of the new one

http://www.google.com/logos/drseuss09.gif

^_^

lovgle?

this vernal equinox one looks like it says "gooolo"

i think it looks like 'googlo' i dont know how that last letter could be an 'e'

aw its the v hungry caterpillar

http://i39.tinypic.com/28md8xj.jpg

That's awesome.

i think it looks like 'googlo' i dont know how that last letter could be an 'e'

it can't be. but it's google. so you know it is. less whinin' more "aw" pls.

srsly don't overthink this pls

i'm not really whinin', but they've done dozens of these that are cool-looking and legible, so when i open up my browser for the 5 millionth time and actually don't immediately think "google" when i see the logo i kinda think c'mon, you guys are pros at this, what gives.

The strawberry is tilted so it's clearly an 'e'. Have you considered the problem is you?

corngoolio

ok if we're gonna have a silly argument, let's have a silly argument: how many fonts have an 'e' with a perfectly round hole and no line underneath the enclosed circle?

i mean they could've had mr. caterpillar help create a clear e instead of just hanging around with the o's not doing shit

Guys there's only so much you can do with MS Paint OK?

you guys are pros at this, what gives.

Actually, it's just one dude. I saw a little tv clip about him once. His entire job is to come up with goofy logos so people on forums can trash talk them. Best job evah!

ok, that guy is a pro, but like i said he usually does good work, which makes the iffy work more glaring!

Write him a letter.

i'll write him a letter with e's that are all slightly tilted circles and see how well he understands it

hed probably understand it ok

Written him a letter using the Eric Karl fruit font!

top notch aspie bating well played google

or should i say well played GOOOLO

don't you mean GOOOOOOOLOL

yes that is what i meant GOOOOOOOOOLOOOOOLOOLOLOLOLLLLOOOOOLLOLOLOLOLOL

http://i40.tinypic.com/5aqau0.jpg

morse code today

How original.

http://www.google.com/logos/michaeljackson09.gif

There's an Easter egg if you search for ascii art

Gfeetgle! Xpost

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=ascii+art

playing pacman yo

Hell yes.

2 player if you click on "Insert Coin" (WASD for second player).

NEAT

Hmm it's done in Flash.

Also not a fan of the target area for "Language Tools" being like three times the width of the actual link. BAD GOOGLE.

done in Flash.

So today at least everyone else is cooler than iPad owners.

Yeah, they gave us free pacman they're the fucking worst. Do no evil, my ass.

wasn't sure if it was Flash because right clicking suggested otherwise, not that i know how else it could've been done really.

DRIVIN' ME CRAZY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-MONIvP6kI

2 player if you click on "Insert Coin" (WASD for second player).

holy crap I just played both players at once and almost had a heart attack! It adds this whole layer of strategy because you can lead ms pac-man off in a suicide mission to draw away the ghosts and then have (uh...mr.) pac-man eat a power pellet at the last second to save her.

steve this file has the details:

http://www.google.com/logos/js/pacman10-hp.2.js

Meanwhile

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjEDX-2M7Qk

hmm i guess it's not Flash? confused.

PAC-MAN is playable on iPad and modern smartphones (Nexus One, iPhone 3GS, Palm Pre, etc.). Not available on mobile homepage but doodle will appear if people switch to the classic mode (iPad uses Classic as default).

Sound may be flash, but the game is javascript - it works on the iPad (though is a bit too fiddly)

Today, we’re introducing a new feature that brings a whole new level of personalization to Google by letting you add a favorite photo or image to the background of the Google homepage.

at last

Best one so far imo
http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/2047/flintstones10hpm.jpg

I used to sign my name differently on all the worksheets I did in 4th and 5th grade. It was one of the few things I could do to make school fun.

then again, green big bird always amuses me
http://img839.imageshack.us/img839/1750/sesamestreet200940thann.gif

the flintstones one is pretty good, i gotta give it to 'em

I never noticed before that if you leave the search box blank and just click 'I'm Feeling Lucky' it will take you to a collection of the various logos. This one is fun:

http://www.google.com/logos/2010/christie10-hp.jpg

google went kinda buck today, chrome os, app store

today's is quite possibly the ugliest google logo ever

Looks like the normal one to me, so far. But I do have to say that the one last week where you could control a submarine and explore underwater (with the space in the O's as windows to the ocean) was v v cool

oh it's V-Day over here already

http://www.google.com/logos/2011/valentines11-hp.jpg

u h8 <3

that jules verne's birthday one last week was pretty epic

ewww

it's like a christmas-themed gas station postcard floating in the ocean

so word on the street (twitter) is googles launching another social network today lmao http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_to_launch_major_new_social_network_called_c.php

I'm def willing to give it a shot. Gmail has been the single best client I've ever used, as is GoogleMaps...GoogleEarth...

Don't think kids are gonna just STOP using FAcebook any time soon, tho. But wasn't the same said for Myspace's heyday? When I first got my FB account it def never seemed like Myspace was gonna go out of style.

Since Twitter corp seems pretty dedicated to shitty monetisation and is making a load of fuckups on the way I think it would make a softer target for Google right now. Especially since it's mostly public and users are happy to be public, which is what Google wants.

i think the thing w/any twitter killer - which is to say a sort of a la carte broadcast signal - is that it truly has to be a platform - like twitter and facebook sort of claim theyre platforms but they also want to be free to be apps when they want and squeeze out developers

def one of the scenarios in the future for twitter/facebook failure is that a lot of what they do gets taken over in a ho hum nbd way by an open standard and it just becomes like email or w/e and no one even really notices cause its such a mundane thing by then

thats kind of what dave winer is thinking abt http://scripting.com/stories/2011/01/03/rebootingRssRevisited.html

anyway as far as this im skeptical that google can succeed w/a copycat 'social network' - fb/twitter imo at this point are too big to be taken down by something that obviously looks like them - its the new idea that theyve got to worry abt

also i mean lol orkut and buzz - third times the charm right

http://circles.google.com/ was redirecting to a Google search page for 'Circles' earlier, now it's a 404.

A representative for Google told NetworkEffect unequivocally that no such service is launching at SXSW today. She would not say whether something called Google Circles was in the works.

so tomorrow

The funny thing about the fb vs myspace scenario was that fb offered significantly less...formatted profiles, no area for "customization", everything condensed into menus. But it came at a point when myspace was at it's most excessive and obnoxious.. ppl seemed to welcome that, as well as the "maturity" that came with fb and all that bullshit...

imo the latest facebook profile revision (as of feb, when i deleted my account) was verging on eyesore, with those massive collages of "HERE ARE MY FAVORITE BANDS - ALL 744 OF THEM" . but fb's still managed to counter that w/ the drop-down.. and plus just the fact that it's a social staple. i don't think anything is capable of "killing" another platform instantaneously... if anything would overtake facebook, it would be progressively. fb was around for years in "coexistence" w/ myspace until kids started deciding they couldn't hear Fall Out Boy on auto-play for the 3248203 time.

i guess what i'm trying to say that if circles is to prove any sort of success, it can't just mime what facebook has and expect the google moniker to carry them into graceland. it should monopolize on something fb's doing wrong.. which, atm, i can't think of anything.

It's awful at privacy scoping. People bascially have about five social circles -- family, work, close friends, acquaintances, public -- and Facebook flattens them all into one. If you try to hide stuff from certain people they'll get in yr grille about it, fam demanding to know why they're limited profile, work ppl making comments about nto seeing any pics. And because you can't go public in any controlled way at all, ppl use a whole diff service (Twitter) for that.

"Circles" sounds like they're going to make a stab at fixing that.

yeah i guess the challenge is making it user friendly - like facebooks experience w/trying to institute these type of controls is that even tho people claim to want the functionality they still never use it - its k a design issue really

im imagining w/circles, just judging by the name, google is trying to make it work by having that aspect be completely overt and central - kinda doubt google has the ux chops to get it right tho

the thing i would like is being able to customise the kind of content i get from a feed, i mean i subscribe to the nytimes art feed but there's all the theatre stuff and like news stories and really i only read holland cotter and ideally i could customise the kind of content i get better, or even better have the option of automatic content filtering based on my history.

Like
http://www.google.co.uk/logos/2011/bunsen11-hp.png

The vertical position of your mouse pointer controls the height of the bunsen flame, horizontal position controls the flame colour, and some combination of the two controls the relative levels of the blue and red liquids.

http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/2011/0331/Robert-Bunsen-The-man-behind-today-s-Google-Doodle

Oddly, after the first paragraph, this website calls him Bensen throughout.

(This is the first link if you click on the Google logo)

http://i56.tinypic.com/2h8cpl1.jpg

a tribute to the pioneering Civilian Conservation Corps astronaut Yuri Gagarin

^ best one yet imo

otm, so great

"О да, действительно!

the Richard Trevithick tribute is great and subtle too:

http://i55.tinypic.com/mc43ux.jpg

although I wish it chugged and belched out steam when you moused over it

Wonder what they'll do for Richard Speck's upcoming centennial.

video!

Today is a fakey Charlie Chaplin video

kill marketing dept

not to sound like a corner writer or anything but celebrating yuri gagarin on the anniversary of the start of the (american) civil war kind of rubbed me the wrong way

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ljx53oH6FP1qgy35io1_500.png

they should've gone with hitler's birthday

(could've reused chaplin video 8)

http://www.google.co.uk/logos/2011/hargreaves11-hp-1.jpg

rah!

Yeah and it changes to a new Mr Mans/Womans when you refresh too :D

my favourite...
http://www.google.co.uk/logos/2011/hargreaves11-hp-5.jpg

Damn I didn't mean that one - I meant this one...
http://www.google.co.uk/logos/2011/hargreaves11-hp-14.jpg

love all these

love today's martha graham animation

Yeah it was beautifully done! So elegant!

it's not an animated gif, lol

http://www.google.com/logos/2011/graham11-hp-sprite.png

Huh, I never think of animated pngs. How'd you aslpode it like that? When I do view img it only shows one frame.

right clicked on the page in Firefox -> page info -> media -> list of all media on that page, including that overview picture

Neat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dlj-n0ouPFo

(for those who haven't got google)

http://i.imgur.com/pdjDK.jpg

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj242/donaldparsley/scarry11-hp.png

from the other day (small)

sort of love the google logos that are utterly illegible even though you know what they're supposed to say (hint: google)

I like the Scarry logo (we didn't get to see it in the UK).
Also I like how the Les Paul logo can be played, either by strumming the strings with the mouse pointer, or by using the keyboard.

Interesting open tunings on the guitar!

But shouldn't a Les Paul tribute be an electric guitar? (sounds like an acoustic to me, but maybe it's just my crappy laptop speakers)

The keyboard mapping is a hoot - I'm trying to play stuff on it now; it actually works more like a piano keyboard.

Sounds like an electric to me, like a twangy country style one.

I guess that's what an electric guitar built around a railroad log sound like, then....

okay, i hadn't realized you could play this it! so awesome. sounds electric and twangy, but not at all distorted. like a clean les paul!

Very 2003 retro Takashi Murakami Kaikai Kiki up today:
http://www.google.com/logos/2011/murakami_summer-hp.png

so google launched another social network today http://grabby.tinygrab.com/cCqe

http://i52.tinypic.com/nb6udc.png

what was wrong with buzz I'd like to know

what a company cant have multiple failed social networks now

do any of you use google reader? does anyone comment or share on items in that? not particularly interested in doing so but i'm curious

today's Calder is nice. (shadow too!)

yeah it made me smile heaps when I saw it :)

ooh, click + drag!

collisions evident, not sure calder would stand for that.

omg it rotates! :o

not sure there are collisions - i think the way the wire is bent (and the way the virtual version is programmed) restricts the movements of each of the pivots so that the vanes can't collide. (grab the bog yellow thing and spin it - the big blue thing starts moving before collision can happen)

the lack of depth perception is confusing sometimes though.

Jim Henson's 75th Birthday

Charles Addams' 100th Birthday

http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2135895/Google-Doodlers-Pay-A-Call-On-Charles-Addams-100th-Birthday

https://www.google.com/logos/2012/sopa12_hp.png

I have an animated logo about the Monkey King on my google.

I forwarded a letter to my senator about my opposition to the "Stop Online Piracy Act". I actually got an e-mail back (this stuff happened about a month ago). The letter back talked about why I shouldn't be concerned and how only foreign websites are going to be effected blah blah blah. Now I'm pissed off at my senator. Why couldn't he have just ignored my letter. I was also pissed off when I got a letter back in which my senator defended cuts to unemployment comp. I hate that he gets the last word

Not seeing Black Bar google using Opera in Canada. A little sad!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/apr/23/zx-spectrum-st-georges-day

https://www.google.co.uk/logos/2012/stgeorge12-hp.png

(nope, not going to link to a jpg, that's missing the point)

I like it !!!

www.google.com

nice

happy birthday, ol' rubber-keys

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pjScLekQ21I/T5W7Le8F_xI/AAAAAAAAA8s/1bOvBQYlXVk/s1600/googledodle.png

yeah todays zipper made me laugh out loud in my office, loved it.

OMG tho I never even made the "unzip google's doodle" leap, which my disgusting housemate just did :/ ewww.

(as in, its a fly rather than a jacket)

big google penis flies @ u face

my first thought was that this was some kind of Sticky Fingers tribute, yeah

y'day's one looked like a racist 6-year-old had been playing in MS Paint

WOW. Robert Moog!

omg so fun

yeah, so great! been making tones all evening.

holy shit, this is excellent. and four-track recording.

At the end of the day, some time you just want to keep on googlin'. #searchin'withthebestofthem

Can only play one note at a time. Just like the real thing!

Functional pitch-bend wheel if you can get the mouse pointer there in time

you just gotta use yr keyboard for the keys, leaves your mouse free for the pitch bending and oscillators, etc.

as soon as i press any key, it jumps to the search bar. how do you play it w/the keyboard?

or do you mean MIDI?

Click on the Moog's keyboard first.

thx now it worx (thought i'd already tried that)

i like how the needle on the VU meter jumps when you first press record

(someone has done lots of time with analog reel-to-reels)

Alan Turing's 100th Birthday

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-fuRsRzDsdi4/T-VrKSmNuqI/AAAAAAAAEUU/93AmnRq2z6c/h120/turing.tiff

There's a puzzle here, I can't figure it out.

It's a Turing Machine.

Got it. You have to change the program at the bottom so that the 5 digit target in the top right matches the number on the main tape. There are 6 levels, each one corresponding to a letter in 'Google', which lights up when you've figured out the sequence for that letter.

I just sat and watched my housemate solve the damn thing in 5 mins flat, explaining to me what he was doing, and I had no effing idea what was going on.

One of the hits I got after solving was a pretty interesting perspective on his death:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18561092

fun!

well, it's hardly Daley Thompson's Decathlon but...

https://www.google.com/logos/2012/bob_ross12-hp.jpg

radd

awesome

Love the Debussy one

http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/11/googles-doctor-who/

i do love me some isometric graphics like this

game completely spoilt by mapping up down left right to diagonals... i hate that.

also, the daleks are very dumb.

https://www.google.com/logos/2014/rubiks/rubiks.html

(35 moves, 33 seconds...)