A Look Back: 11 years of Google Logos

Tomorrow is Presidents Day here in the United States. Its a national holiday, and with all important holidays we have come to expect the Google Logo to show homage of such occasions. Sadly if the last decade is anything to go by, there will be no logo to celebrate the first president of America, George Washington.

Rather than go into thedebate of Googles political tendencies, lets look at the Google Logos of the past.

The first Google doodle came two years after its launch in 2000. That was to commemorate the joyous and important occasion of St Patricks Day in the US.

The images werent as creative as they are now, think Clipart from the early days of Microsoft Word. Now some of the logos are considered works of art.

Clearly love has always been important to Google as it played a heavy role in Googles 2nd ever logo and has been remembered every year since then (other then Olympic years). Here is its Valentines Logo from 2000 2011

2000

2001

2003

2004

2005

2007

2008

2009

2011

Its logos have become moreelaborate and numerous in the last few years. The biggest changes happening last year and this year with versions in HD and animation. Here is a logo that is also available in HD:

Jules Vernes 183rd Birthday, 2011

An occasion Google has marked religiously is the Olympics. It displays several dedicated logos over the sporting period. Here are the Olympics logos correspon! ding wit h the opening ceremonies:

Olympics 2010

Olympics 2006

Olympics 2002

It will be a wait and see to see if Google does anything tomorrow for Presidents Day. But here is a president they do like and this was its logo dedicated to John F Kennedy on the 50th Anniversary of hisinauguration:

50th Anniversary of JFKs Inaugural Speech 2011

You can see all of Googles Logos from the past eleven yearshere.


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