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Dmitriy [PersonRank 0]

Wednesday, January 4, 2006
18 years ago

The word is "blog", i think.

Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

18 years ago #

You got it :)

David Hergert [PersonRank 1]

18 years ago #

Yeah, that is pretty ballsy of them to display their logo in such a way. But I like it.

Brad [PersonRank 0]

18 years ago #

Actually, the word is "Blog." The lone dot on the bottom (spot 6) at the beginning of the word stands for "capital letter follows."

Gareth [PersonRank 1]

18 years ago #

Oddly, my Personalized Homepage shows the Goog7e birthday logo instead...

BrianS [PersonRank 7]

18 years ago #

My personlized homepage shows Goog7e too....but if you roll over the logo it still says Happy Birthday Louis Braille!

Michael [PersonRank 0]

18 years ago #

But whats means the single dot at the beginning of the word? I also wondered about a few more things at the SERPs. I am not an native English speaker, so look at http://blog.ottz.de/archiv/48/google-braille-logo/ for more details an images.

Stephen Glynn [PersonRank 1]

18 years ago #

As Brad said, the single dot at the beginning of the word indicates the following letter is a capital. I found a Braille key at

http://pbskids.org/arthur/print/braille/braille_key.html

Michael [PersonRank 0]

18 years ago #

Thank you for the answer Stephen. On the website I visited there was no information about this single dot.

Niraj Sanghvi [PersonRank 10]

18 years ago #

Looks like Google has updated both their search results pages and personalized homepage to also display the Braille logo now (on the personalized homepage the filename of the logo is still 7th_birthday_results.gif).

Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

18 years ago #

Did it take them several hours just to notice the search result logo is wrong?

Now, I'm also getting a different top result...

Niraj Sanghvi [PersonRank 10]

18 years ago #

Looks like it took them a while to notice and fix it, according to the post and comments on David Krane's (a Google employee) blog: http://www.kraneland.com/2006/01/dennis-hwang-genius.html#comments

Brinke Guthrie [PersonRank 10]

18 years ago #

cant stand that logo. REALLY don't like it. and if I enable the customized logo module--it won't seem to overwrite it, either. Yeck. but a nice try.

Clari-ann [PersonRank 0]

18 years ago #

Helo Im Clari-ann
Just call me Clare! ok?
you know I do'nt understand what your title but I think that is Google or Braillle.
Am I right?

theone3 [PersonRank 0]

18 years ago #

I wrote that article :D

w00t i'm famous :)

trish [PersonRank 1]

18 years ago #

woo i figured it out.. 'Blog' and i also figured out what the dot meant, as i read over the 'google' logo in braille. i feel smart now.

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