Archives Tag: Holidays
Happy New Year! (2011)
A huge happy new year to all our Google Inside readers! To celebrate the new year, Google is gracing us some roman numerals to kick off the new year. I’m really looking forward to what Google has in store for us in the new year. New technology, new features, new products, and so much more. [...]
Full StoryHappy New Year from the AdSense Team
And a happy new year from part of the AdSense team Incoming search terms:brian reid lawsuitbrian reid google76 9th avenue google officegoogle where is lucy\s ball picture located at mountain viewhappy new year from the teamlarry page and sergey brin founded google a leader in internet search technology while they were graduate students at stanford [...]
Full StoryGoogle Holiday Logo with Indian Dances
This year, Google kicked off it’s holiday logo series with an Indian Dances theme. It’s yet another interactive logo. Google has been getting more and more creative with non-image based logos, offering its millions of daily visitors something fun to play with. Here is a video of what the logo looks like, thanks to Barry. [...]
Full StoryGoogle Celebrates Rosa Parks
Google is celebrating the 55th anniversary of Rosa Parks “not moving.” You can read the full Rosa Parks story here. Incoming search terms:rosa parksrosa parks picturesrosa parks storygoogle rosaRosa Parks story pic
Full StoryGoogle Thanksgiving 2010
Today, Google is celebrating with a special holiday logo. But instead of sending users directly to a search query, Google is sending you to a landing page. Could this be the start of a content-driven trend by Google? A landing page with a recipe by Ina Garten. Incoming search terms:google thanksgiving 2010thanksgiving 2010 googlegoogle thanksgivinggoogle [...]
Full StoryGoogle Doodle – Veterans Day 2010
Google is celebrating Veterans Day today. I am so proud of my father for having served in the army many years ago. My heart goes out all my relatives and everyone else who has been or is currently still in the armed forces. Incoming search terms:google doodle veterans day 2010veterans dayarmed forces day google doodlegoogle [...]
Full StoryFree In-flight WiFi by Google
Google has announced that they are sponsoring this holiday season, free WiFi for travelers on Delta, Virgin America, and AirTran — U.S. domestic flights only. You can read more about it here: http://www.freeholidaywifi.com/
Full StoryGoogle on Halloween – 2010
Google mixed it up a bit and added an image switcher today, where you can switch between five (5) different images. They focused on a Scooby Doo theme this year. Here is what the images look like [and the switcher]. Incoming search terms:google halloweengoogle halloween 2010google image halloweengoogle animation halloweengoogle halloween images 2010google image halloween [...]
Full StoryGoogle Celebrates Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Today, Google is celebrating the birth of Jacques-Yves Cousteau. According to Wikipedia, Jacques-Yves Cousteau (French pronunciation: [ʒak iv kusto]; 11 June 1910 – 25 June 1997)[1] was a French naval officer, explorer, ecologist, filmmaker, innovator, scientist, photographer, author and researcher who studied the sea and all forms of life in water. He co-developed the aqua-lung, [...]
Full StoryMother’s Day 2010
Google celebrates Mother’s Day 2010 today, in honor of mothers around the world. And to my mother, and her mother, and all the mothers around the world – thank you. Thank you for every ounce of effort you put into raising your children. And for all the love that you give to your children. It [...]
Full StoryGoogle Earth Day 2010
Google celebrates Earth Day today. Incoming search terms:google earth day 2010earth dayimagenes google earth actualizadaswww google earth 2010www google Search D-DAY comwwwgoogle day
Full StoryAgain, Still No Easter for Google
Last year it was the same as this year, nothing special for Google for this precious Christian holiday. I looked around at the other engines, but the only other search engine I saw doing anything was Ask.com, which has bunnies on their homepage. Bing.com has some baby chicks, but Yahoo! is doing nothing as well.
Full StoryGoogle Saint Patrick’s Day 2010
Google is celebrating Saint Patrick’s Day today. This brings new meaning to the button on their homepage, “I’m feeling lucky”. It would have been fun if they had turned that button into something special today, maybe give the 156,403,406th visitor a free Gmail account or something
Full StoryGoogle Pi Day 2010
Google celebrates Pi Day today. Last year, they had other plans for Pi Day, but they’re back on schedule with regular Pi Day celebrations Incoming search terms:pi day googlegoogle piGoogle Celebrationsgoogle P Igoogle pi balloon daygoogle pi day 2010google pi day imagepi approximation day googlepiday google
Full StoryNo Google Love for Valentine’s Day
Today is Valentine’s Day here in the United States, but Google is showing no love for the day of love. Last year, we saw some “x” and “o” love for Google, Valentine’s Day 2009: But this year, just Winter Olympics logos.
Full StoryHappy New Year from Google – 2010
Google Australia is already celebrating their happy new year with this logo. Here’s to everyone wishing you a happy new year in 2010! Incoming search terms:happy new year google
Full StoryHappy Holidays from Google
This year, Google did something a little differently for the holidays. They typically have a fun little logo and it points to a Google search. This year, they are pointing to a few different logos, not a search. Here’s what they look like. There was a fourth one with this, but it just looked weird. [...]
Full Story‘Tis the Season
The Christmas season is just around the corner, here the United States of America. Thanksgiving is first, but I’ll be out of town for Thanksgiving. It’s preemptive, but many people here in the states are getting ready for the holiday season. Incoming search terms:christmas seasonchristmas holidaytis the seasonchristmasseasonpicture of christmas season\tis the season
Full StoryHappy Halloween 2009
Google wishes everyone a happy Halloween with a special Google logo today. The Adsense team sends their greetings. Incoming search terms:happy halloween logogoogle halloween 2009happy halloween googlegoogle en halloweenlogos de google en halloweenhappy halloween logoshappy halloween 2009halloween logos 2009google logo halloweengoogle happy halloween 2009
Full StoryGoogle Celebrates the Birth of Gandhi
Today, Google is celebrating the birth of Gandhi, and here’s how. Incoming search terms:ghandi google
Full StoryGoogle Celebrates Michael Jackson
Today is the birthday of Michael Jackson. With his death this year, he is certainly a public figure to be celebrated. Here is Google’s take on the celebration. Incoming search terms:google celebrates michael jacksongoogle michael jacksonmichael dingmanmichael jackson birthday 2011michael jackson drawingsmichael jackson googlemichael jackson drawings step by stepgoogle designs michael jacksongoogles birthday 2011google celebrates [...]
Full Story400 Years of Galileo’s Telescope
Not everywhere on Google, but some places, specifically google.com.ly, Google is celebrating 400 years of Galileo’s Telescope. Incoming search terms:galileos telescopegalileo telescopegoogle Anniversarygalileos telescope picturesgalileo\s telescopegalileo telescope picturesgoogle anniversary imagesgoogle galileo telescopetelescope galileotelescope logo
Full StoryGoogle Celebrates Comic-Con
Right now Comic-Con is going on. Google is sporting a new Google logo for the celebration. Here’s what they are showing off. Incoming search terms:Google celebratesgoogle celebration logosWWW googie concomic con googlegoogie congoogle com congoogle comic concomicon googlegoogle comic com conventiongoogle comic-con
Full StoryFather’s Day 2009
A huge happy Father’s Day to everyone! Here is what Google showed for the Google Doodle of the day. Incoming search terms:fathers day 2009google fathers dayfathers day googlegoogle father\s dayFATHER DAY 2009google fathers day 2009google father\s day logo 2009Father\s Day 2009happy fathers day googleno fathers day doodle?
Full StoryCelebrating 25 Years of Tetris Holdings, LLC
I’m down in Guatemala right now and Google Guatemala is celebrating 25 years of Tetris Holdsing, LLC. Below is a screen shot of what it looks like here in Guatemala. Incoming search terms:google guatemalacelebrates 25 years of Tetris
Full StoryGoogle Celebrates Mother’s Day 2009
I have to throw out a huge shout-out to my mother and wish her a happy mother’s day. I don’t think she reads my blog, but I know my sister does — and a huge shout-out to her as well, her name is Jennifer. And to all the other mothers out there, a very warm [...]
Full StoryGoogle Celebrates Samuel Morse
Today, April 27th, 2009, Google is celebrates the birth of Samuel Morse, the creator of Morse Code. Incoming search terms:google samuel morseSamuel morse googlemorse code google
Full StoryGoogle Celebrates Earth Day
Today is Earth Day. April 22nd, 2009. Google is celebrating Earth Day with the rest of the world. One thing that is still bugging me is that Google will celebrate Earth Day, but they didn’t celebrate Easter. Incoming search terms:google earth daygoogle holidaysgoogle earth day 2009google on earth daygoogle earthdayearth day googlegoogle на праздникахgoogle earth [...]
Full StoryGoogle Not Celebrating Easter
Today is Easter. I would like to say happy Easter to all of the Google Inside readers. Today is a special day to remember. But Google doesn’t agree. Google is open about agreeing with same-sex marraige and open about where they are politically, but they will be open about any possibility of celebrating Easter. Google [...]
Full StoryNot so Happy Pi Day
Today is Pi Day, but Google is not celebrating it. Instead, Google is celebrating Giovanni Here’s the excerpt from their website, In 1890, Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli drew this map of Mars. Today, on his 174th birthday, we are excited to include his work with many other new features for Mars in Google Earth. I’m [...]
Full StoryDr. Seuss Google Logo
Today’s Google logo was a tribute to Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as his pen name, Dr. Seuss. He was born on March 2nd, 1904, which would have made him 105 years old today. It’s really hard to believe that the Dr. Seuss brand has been around for almost 100 years. Of course the brand [...]
Full StoryNo Celebration for President’s Day in the US
This is something I actually find a little odd. They celebrate artists, Valentine’s Day, Christmas, Holloween, and everything else under the sky, but Google is not celebrating the day of all our past presidents. Google cannot try to hide behind the “we are not political” line, we know Google is quite forward with politics and [...]
Full StoryValentine’s Day 2009
Today is Valentine’s Day! To celebrate, Google is sporting a new logo as usual. This year’s logo has the same mystery as V-Day 2007 had. The logo spells out “Gxogle” as 2007 spelled out “Googe,” while neither spell out Google. Maybe Valentine’s Day is the one day of the year where they feel they can [...]
Full StoryShare the iGoogle Love this Valentine’s Day
Google is ramping up for the upcoming 2009 Valentine’s Day! The first of its strategic moves is to start spreading some love about iGoogle. How? They want to hear your story and how iGoogle has revolutionized your life! Okay, well, not really revolutionized, but how iGoogle has changed your life. Here are a few stories. [...]
Full StoryGoogle Celebrates Jackson Pollock
Google is celebrating this influential American painter today. Born on January 28th, 1912; died on August 11th, 1956. Incoming search terms:google jacksonjackson pollockjackson pollock googlegoogle jackson pollockgooglejackson pollockpainter jackson pollockгугл и джексон
Full StoryGoogle Celebrates Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Today, in the USA, is Martin Luther King Jr. Day. A day we remember for what he did for our country. Last year, we here at Google Inside, celebrated Martin Luther King Jr. Day as well, Google had a slightly different spin on their Google design. I am wishing everyone a happy Martin Luther King [...]
Full StoryGoogle in 2009
Welcome to Google in 2009! To kick things off, here’s the first holiday logo from Google. A happy new year to you from Ginside.com and Google! There are going to be some huge news updates coming up in 2009 about Google, to make sure you subscribe to our feed below. Incoming search terms:gmail apple mail [...]
Full StoryMerry Christmas to You!
I want to wish you and your loved ones a Merry Christmas! A huge thank you for being a subscriber and that I’m eagerly looking forward to what 2009 holds for both Ginside.com and the web as a whole. There are going to be some huge changes coming up in the future of the web, [...]
Full StoryHappy Thanksgiving 2008
A huge happy, happy, HAPPY, Thanksgiving to everyone. A great day of giving thanks, hopefully being with family and friends, a day of relaxation and comfort in the knowledge that you have a life to be thankful for. I know not everyone may have family or friends they can be with, I will have friends, [...]
Full StoryGoogle to Encourage Voters
Today is election day in the USA. John McCain vs. Barack Obama Note: Something I noticed is that there is not a link this time. Normally when they put up a special Google logo, there is a link going somewhere. Not today. Incoming search terms:google logo voting
Full StoryHappy Halloween 2008!
It’s that time of year again! Google wishes everyone a happy halloween. This year’s Halloween [holiday logo] is actually really cool, in my opinion. The designer did a great job with it. Incoming search terms:google images halloweencool google logogoogle Halloween logogoogle halloween 2008halloween google search
Full Story5 Google Doodles You Never Knew About
Here are 5 Google Doodles that you may have overlooked in the past 10 years. Happy Holidays from Google – December 2003 Happy Holidays from Google – December 2004 Google celebrates Leonardo da Vinci – 2005 Google celebrates Percival Lowell – 2006 Google celebrates Swiss National Day – 2006 Incoming search terms:google doodlesdoodle 5 googlegoogle [...]
Full StoryGoogle is Turning 10 Years Old
Google is on the brink of turning ten years old. Whoa. To celebrate, Google is kicking off the celebrations with Project 10100 at http://www.project10tothe100.com/. What is the project about? “Project 10100 (pronounced “Project 10 to the 100th”) is a call for ideas to change the world by helping as many people as possible.” Now the [...]
Full StoryGoogle Celebrates First Day of Fall
Today is the first day of fall. Google is right on cue to celebrate it with us Incoming search terms:google fallGoogle First day of fallFirst Day Fallni fun google for first day of fallgoogle first day of fall 2111First Images of Fallfirst day of googlefirst day of fall in usafirst day of fall googlefirst day [...]
Full StoryGoogle Celebrates the Birth of NASA
Yesterday, Google celebrated Beatrix Potter. Today, Google is celebrating the birth of NASA. Props to NASA for accomplishing 50 years of work! In addition, today we’re including a small map of the moon. Apparently you cannot embed the moon from Google’s servers, using http://www.google.com/moon/. That sucks. Incoming search terms:jacques cousteau google maps
Full StoryGoogle Celebrates Beatrix Potter
Today, Google is celebrating the birth of Beatrix Potter. Don’t forget to grab her best selling book too! Incoming search terms:google beatrix potterbeatrix potter googlesearch terms googlerabbit logopeter rabbit logowww google beatrix potterbeatrix potter google logobeatrix potterbeatrix potter google plusbeatrix potter artwork
Full StoryGoogle Celebrates Birth of Marc Chagall
I actually had to look up this one to find out who Marc Chagall was, but alas, another painter. I do find it quite odd that Google celebrates a lot of painters and not too many other professions. Here is what it looks like. Incoming search terms:marc chagall paintingsBirth Chagallgoogle find Chagalмарк шагал картины
Full StoryHappy Cinco de Mayo from Google Inside
A happy Cinco de Mayo to everyone! You can read more about the Cinco de Mayo (the fifth of May, translated to English) at Wikipedia. Incoming search terms:cinco de mayo google picture
Full StoryGoogle Celebrates Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Today, Google celebrates Martin Luther King Jr. day. I believe every public school has the day off and select private schools. Most offices have today off as well (not including mine). So to everyone I wish a happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day! Incoming search terms:google martin luther kinggoogle martin luther king dayMartin Luther King [...]
Full StorySt. Patrick’s Day Love from Google
Just a little St. Patrick’s day lovin’ from Google. Happy St. Patrick’s day everyone!
Full StoryHappy Lunar New Years
A very happy Lunar New Years to everyone! This one actually looks like Google…not Googe!
Full StorySweet, Sweet, Chocolate Covered Googe
A special happy Valentine’s Day from Google….but wait, Google or Googe? Looks like this one is just Googe. Maybe they’re considering changing their company name from Google to just Googe…or maybe The Googe.
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