Valentine’s Day Google Doodle
Google is running this special Doodle logo for Valentine’s Day:
That’s actually pretty sweet. Last year’s Doodle was a mess, with a lot of sites reporting that Google had forgotten the “l” in Google:
Here’s the 2005 Valentine’s logo:
In 2006, Google did not celebrate Valentine’s Day because February 14 fell during the Winter Olympic Games, and Google runs special Olympic Doodles during those days.
If you forgot to get your special someone (or your pet, whatever) something for V-Day, might I recommend hitting up Rite-Aid on the way home? There’s always something there that says “I’m not a thoughtless jerk”.
Philipp notes that Google Docs is pink today, the Google Maps Street View guy is standing on a heart-shaped platform, and YouTube’s logo is heart-shaped.
UPDATE: Search Engine Land has all the other logos. Here’s YouTube’s:
Ask.com ran this full page search homepage decoration:
Here’s the image Ask used:
1600×1050 and only 58kb? Guess JPEG is really effective when the image is 90% white.
And here’s Yahoo’s animated Flash logo:
And here’s the static version:
And finally, Dogpile:
