Archives Tag: Holidays

Happy New Year! (2011)

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. [...]

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Happy New Year from the AdSense Team

Happy 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 [...]

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Google Holiday Logo with Indian Dances

Google 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. [...]

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Google Celebrates Rosa Parks

Google 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

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Google Thanksgiving 2010

Google 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 [...]

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Google Doodle – Veterans Day 2010

Google 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 [...]

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Free In-flight WiFi by Google

Free 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/

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Google on Halloween – 2010

Google 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 [...]

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Google Celebrates Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Google 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, [...]

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Mother’s Day 2010

Mother’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 [...]

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Google Earth Day 2010

Google 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

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Again, 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.

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Google Saint Patrick’s Day 2010

Google 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

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Google Pi Day 2010

Google 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

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No 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.

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Happy New Year from Google – 2010

Happy 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

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Happy Holidays from Google

Happy 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. [...]

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‘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

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Happy Halloween 2009

Happy 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

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Google Celebrates the Birth of Gandhi

Google Celebrates the Birth of Gandhi

Today, Google is celebrating the birth of Gandhi, and here’s how. Incoming search terms:ghandi google

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Google Celebrates Michael Jackson

Google 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 [...]

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400 Years of Galileo’s Telescope

400 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

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Google Celebrates Comic-Con

Google 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

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Father’s Day 2009

Father’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?

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Celebrating 25 Years of Tetris Holdings, LLC

Celebrating 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

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Google Celebrates Mother’s Day 2009

Google 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 [...]

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Google Celebrates Samuel Morse

Google 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

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Google Celebrates Earth Day

Google 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 [...]

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Google Not Celebrating Easter

Google 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 [...]

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Not so Happy Pi Day

Not 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 [...]

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Dr. Seuss Google Logo

Dr. 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 [...]

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No 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 [...]

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Valentine’s Day 2009

Valentine’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 [...]

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Share the iGoogle Love this Valentine’s Day

Share 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. [...]

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Google Celebrates Jackson Pollock

Google 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

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Google Celebrates Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Google 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 [...]

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Google in 2009

Google 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 [...]

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Merry Christmas to You!

Merry 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, [...]

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Happy 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, [...]

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Google 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

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Happy 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

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5 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 [...]

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Google 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 [...]

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Google 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 [...]

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Google 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

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Google 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

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Google 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

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Happy 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

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Google 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 [...]

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Google Celebrates Earth Day

Google celebrates national Earth Day today.

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St. Patrick’s Day Love from Google

Just a little St. Patrick’s day lovin’ from Google. Happy St. Patrick’s day everyone!

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Happy Lunar New Years

A very happy Lunar New Years to everyone! This one actually looks like Google…not Googe!

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Sweet, 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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