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Today is Earth Day throughout the world and Google, Bing, Ask.com, and also YouTube have special logos or themes today for the day. But as many of you know, China had a major earthquake yesterday killing almost 200 people and injuring an astonishing 11,000 plus people. So while Baidu and Sogou, Asian based search engines typically have earth day logos - today they have earthquake logos to help those in need.
Let's first start with the happier Earth Day logos and then I'll share the earthquake logos.
Google has an animated Earth Day logo that shows the sun and the moon. Here is the static version followed by the animated version captured in the video:
Here is YouTube's tiny logo:
Bing:
Ask.com:
Search Engine Roundtable:
Now, here are the sad earthquake logos which all lead to resource pages for those in the area that need help or want to help.
Baidu:
Sogou:
Hope China recovers quickly from this.
Here are the past Earth Day logos from 2012, 2011 Earth Day, 2010 Earth Day, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005 and 2004.
Note, there is one complaint about the Google logo so far, that the way the sun shines on the letters is wrong.
Forum discussion at Google+ and Google Web Search Help.
Comments:
Andrew
04/22/2013 12:28 pm
hey barry! is seroundtable.org yours?
Barry Schwartz
04/22/2013 12:29 pm
No, it says on the home page: "Not to be confused with seroundtable.com, this is not associated with Barry Schwartz's Search Engine Roundtable by any kind."
Brandon
04/22/2013 04:02 pm
The complaint you mentioned has nothing to do with how the sun shines on the letters. It has to do with how the moon is lit.
Alan Smith
04/23/2013 06:06 am
Google's concept is amazing.
David
04/23/2013 07:33 am
Great concept indeed.And still Google is the only one with an animated logo ;)