A very happy fourth of July to all our American readers! There are some very creative logos from the search engines today.
Google has a double logo, doodle, one for July 4th and it dupes as a happy birthday logo for Rube Goldberg. Rube Goldberg, as per Wikipedia, was a "Jewish American cartoonist, sculptor, author, engineer, and inventor. Goldberg is best known for a series of popular cartoons he created depicting complex devices that perform simple tasks in indirect, convoluted ways – now known as Rube Goldberg machines." So Google put together a doodle that showed off a July 4th theme, as Rube Goldberg would have.
Here is a video of the Google Doodle:
After you click one more time on the logo you will get a search result at Google for [4th of July].
Here are some static images of the logo, but you can also see the design that made it up using some JavaScript over here:
Here is the static Google version:
Very impressive Google! Now for the other search engines.
Yahoo's animated logo:
Yahoo's static logo:
Bing:
Ask.com:
DogPile:
Search Engine Roundtable:
For past July 4th logos from the search industry, see 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005 and 2004.
Forum discussion at Google Webmaster Help, Google Blogoscoped Forums, DigitalPoint Forums, WebmasterWorld, Google Web Search Help and Search Engine Roundtable Forums.
