{"id":246,"date":"2009-08-16T18:20:57","date_gmt":"2009-08-16T18:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/?p=246"},"modified":"2009-08-16T18:20:57","modified_gmt":"2009-08-16T18:20:57","slug":"the-wonderful-world-of-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/16\/the-wonderful-world-of-google\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wonderful World Of Google"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am a huge fan of Google<\/a>. They are doing an increasing amount of things to improve the internet and using technology<\/a> to its fullest, something that can only be good. Yes, there are those who think that they are diversifying a little too much, but I disagree. Everything they do, they do to the highest standard.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I’m writing primarily about their search engine<\/a> having constantly been in awe of the things they think of to do.
\nI’m not talking about it being the most used search engine online (figures from December 2008, the most recent I can find, show that 62.9% of the 8,000,000,000 searches surveyed were done through Google compared to 16.8% done through Yahoo!<\/a> and 9.8% done using MSN\/Windows Live Search<\/a> [source<\/a>]), I’m thinking about the creativity put into celebrating significant events through their logo.<\/p>\n

If you’ve never been to Google when there’s been a celebration of a world event, or a scientist’s birthday or even valentine’s day, then you’ve missed out on a little slice of personalisation. For as long as I can remember, Google have been altering their logo to reflect those sort of things, with a seeming emphasis on the world of science. I’ve managed to find copies of some of the images via, appropriately enough, a Google search and reproduce them for you here. Not all of these would necessarily have been shown at all the Google home pages – for instance there is one from India<\/a> and China<\/a> below.<\/p>\n

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14th March 2003 - Albert Einstein's birthday<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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15th January 2004 - Spirit on Mars<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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3rd February 2004 - Gaston Julia's birthday<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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8th June 2004 - Venus transit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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13th March 2006 - Percival Lowell's birthday<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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16th May 2008 - First laser<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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6th June 2008 - Diego Velazquez's birthday<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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7th July 2008 - Mark Chagall's birthday<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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21st November 2008 - Rene Magritte's birthday<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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12th February 2009 - Charles Darwin's 200th birthday<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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17th May 2009 - Igor Stravinsky's birthday<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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20th June 2009 - Apollo 11 Lunar landing anniversary<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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10th July 2009 - Nikola Tesla's birthday<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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22nd July 2009 - Longest solar eclipse in India and China<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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23rd July 2009 - Comic-Con 2009<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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12th August 2009 - Perseid meteor shower<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Via<\/strong>: Google Logos Collection<\/a>, Telegraph.co.uk<\/a>, Google.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n

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