Google Today(31 October, 2009) Celebrates Halloween by displaying multiple logos on its homepage.
Checkout the Halloween Google Logos in the past: 2008, 2007, 2006. 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999.
Google Logos Collection » archive for October, 2009
Happy Halloween, 2009
- October 31st, 2009
- 7:56 am
Thanksgiving Day in Canada, 2009
- October 12th, 2009
- 8:29 pm
Google Today (October 12, 2009) Celebrates Thanksgiving Day in Canada by displaying this logo on Google Canada homepage.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Google Celebrates Barcode 57th Anniversary
- October 7th, 2009
- 1:53 pm
The Google Logo Today (October 7, 2009) shows a barcode on all its homepages to celebrate the first barcode patent’s 57th Anniversary (October 7, 1952).
Inventors Norman Woodland and Bernard Silver filed the patent on October 1949, and it was granted, No. 2,612,994 (pdf), on October 7, 1952. The original patent was for a system that would encode data in circles (a bulls eye pattern), so that it could be scanned in any direction.
The barcode on the Google homepage is Code 128 encoded, which is a standard way of encoding ASCII character strings (ie. A-Z, a-z, 0-9, etc.) into a barcode.
