Google Goes Animated!

Google has been making a lot of new additions and upgrades to their search engine. One in particular that really catches the eye, is the lively use of their logo. For devoted Google users, I am sure you know what I mean. The logo constantly celebrates holidays, historic events and even birthdays on specific days. Google has even specialized the logo for certain countries, to reflect an event or celebration more geared toward that individual culture.

Just in the past 3 months (October-December) there have been 70 different logos world wide. Here are a few:

October 3^rd: The Korean Thanksgiving. This Google logo appeared in Korea only.

October 10^th: Giuseppe Verdi’s (an Italian romantic composer- mainly opera) Birthday. This Google logo appeared in Italy only.

October 14^th: Polish Teachers Day. This Google logo appeared in Poland only.

October 31^st: Halloween. This Google logo appeared in selected countries that celebrated Halloween.

November 10^th: Sesame Street Ensemble. This Google logo appeared in selected countries around the world.

November 11^th: Veterans Day. This Google logo appeared in the United States.

November 14^th: Anniversary of the day that NASA found water on the moon. This Google logo appeared in selected countries around the world.

November 26^th: Thanksgiving Day. This Google logo appeared in the United States.

December 21^st: Happy Holidays from Google. This Google logo appeared globally.

January 1^st: Happy New Year. This Google logo appeared globally.

Today, January 4, 2010, Google has launched an animated logo. The logo (featured below) is in celebration of Sir Isaac Newton’s birthday. Newton was an English Scientist who is credited with discovering the theory of gravitation. The story goes that Newton was sitting under an apple tree, when an apple fell on his head, thus inspiring the idea of gravity. Today, when opening up the Google search engine site, an apple falls from the logo to the bottom of the screen. Could this be the start of a new trend for the normally simplistic Google?