Mon 21 Sep 2009
First Google had the following doodle and was “unexplained” meaning no mouse over description and clicking led to a search for unexplained phenomena:
Many people thought it may be a tribute to Zero Wing 20th anniversary, the 1980s Japanese video game that coined the “All your base are belong to us” catch phrase. I did not agree, because they would have had a mouse over describing this. Then last Tuesday, the following doodle appeared, again without explanation and led to a search about crop circles.
Google’s Twitter page provided coordinates for Horsell a town in Surrey, England. This town so happens to be where aliens started attacking earth in H.G. Well’s radio broadcast, “War of the Worlds.” It hinted at Google’s actual idea. Today Google finally releases an answer to the strange appearance of UFOs in their logos.
The mouseover for this one is for the birthday of H.G. Wells. He would have been 143 today. Makes sense now and was very well done, considering Google created search hysteria with their unexplained logos over the last week. For each day the logo was released, the search term was the largest on the internet. Well played Google and certainly a new twist to your doodle art collections.
