The Internet is very useful for work and commerce but it is above all one of the best resources for pastime and for fun and when offering an online service, to attract audiences and visitors, one must never be too serious and obscure. Google, the most important and most powerful company on the internet, teaches and practices it: not only, as we have seen in another article, to put prank pages, the so-called Easter Eggs, but also by changing its normal logo every now and then and classic, replacing it with a special and artistic one that celebrates and commemorates anniversaries, important events, holidays and commemorations.
These logos are thus placed on the Google.com home page and appear for 24 hours.
Certainly Google does not throw away its Doodle (it calls them that, it means scribbles), but it keeps them in a museum page where you can look at all the logos used in past years and see which anniversary it refers to.
The history of Google logos starts from 1999 when the search engine was still in Beta phase.
Then the 2000 Olympics, the 2002 World Cup, the San Valentino, the days of Christmas, New Year and many other events and anniversaries of birth of important projects and characters were celebrated. In the last year, the frequency in which these logos appear is increasing and since 2008 new ones appear at least three times every month.
The Google logo museum divides the collection year by year, from 1999 to 2011 and, for some, there are many different versions that are highlighted with the links to the Google Doodle .
The author of these logos should be Dennis Hwany, a Google webmaster who, together with other colleagues, designs the Doodle.
The site has recently been updated with a list and a page dedicated to each logo.
A few weeks ago there was the logo of the birth of Tetris, before we can even remember the first day of spring (March 20), Valentine's Day (February 14), Charles Darwin (February 12), Jackson Pollock (January 28), then c was the Lego Doodle, Dilbert's cartoon page and so on. To remember are above all the interactive Google Doodle and games that are made available today including:
- The piano for composing and playing with Bach from 2019.
- 19 years Google birthday, with a wheel of fortune to turn to make one of the most beautiful doodles of the past appear.
- Beethoven logo, released in 2015, the best doodle ever.
- The Moog music synthesizer
- The guitar logo to play for Les Paul,
- the interactive game for Stanislaw Lem ;
- the video Charlie Chaplin ;
- The logo for Freddy Mercury ;
- the Pacman game from Google
- the game of Zamboni on ice
- Mathematical game for Alan Turing
- Game logo on Star Trek
- Games of the London 2012 Olympics
- Logo for Valentine's Day and George Ferries in 2013 (review it here)
- Claude Debussy, beautiful romantic logo with the music of the famous composer.
- Halloween 2012 logo
- Interactive Rubrik's cube
An interesting aspect is that, when a new logo appears celebrating a character or an event or a party, this becomes clickable and by pressing on it, you access the Google search page with results that look at the character or object celebrated.
This clearly entails an increase in visits for all the sites that talk about that thing, and the commemoration and remembrance becomes truly world-wide (although often not for actual interest but only to be visited).
It does not end here, even fans and graphic designers from all over the world can send Google a new logo which, if done well, is shown on another page with the Fan Logos .
Clearly you cannot use the online tools to create the logos that we have listed on another page but you have to be good with Photoshop and digital graphics.
In another post I remember how it is possible to see the web pages of the past to graphically follow the history of the internet and notice how the great sites of today looked, 10 or 15 years ago.
You can't really select some better logos than others because they are all really beautiful but in this video you can see a rundown of the best
