The FIFA World Cup kicks off today and Google, Bing, Yahoo, Ask.com and other search engines have their special logos up today. The interesting thing is that in the US, Google.com does not have a logo for FIFA World Cup but rather has a Doodle for Jacques Cousteau. FIFA does not need an explanation.
Jacques Cousteau is a 100 today, he died on June 25, 1997 and was a well-known for co-developing the aqua-lung, as pictured in the Google Doodle. Here is a picture of the Jacques Cousteau Google Doodle:
Now for the FIFA World Cup explosion of logos, doodles, themes and animations from the search industry:
The Typical Google FIFA Logo:
Google has a special FIFA logo on Google France & Google South Africa (and some others):
Google South Africa FIFA:
Google France FIFA:
Google Korea:
Yahoo animated:
Yahoo static:
Baidu:
YouTube:
Bing:
Ask.com:
A search for [world cup] in Google:
Forum discussion at Google Blogoscoped & WebmasterWorld.
