2009-12-21
"Happy Holidays from Google!"
google.com/logos/holidays-2009 ...
12-21

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google.com/logos/holiday09_3.g ...

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google.com/logos/holiday09_5.g ...

DoodleWatch haven't indexed this logo yet.
People = 1 :: Machine = 0

To bad for Doodlewatch, Doodlesource has the logo already.

YouTube:

s.ytimg.com/yt/img/logo_solsti ...

Is there a size limitation on this forum, all of those GIF previews don't work.

The blank ones haven't been uploaded yet. George has just taken a guess at the URLs of the remaining Doodles.

Juha the logos are not yet online.

Google Fail:

i49.tinypic.com/2zydgup.png

From Bing.com:

bing.com/fd/hpk2/winter_ROW361 ...

Yahoo! has got a Flash animation, very nice too

yahoo

+ Show Flash

Yes indeed! Also Bing I think is for winter solstice.

I was not aware that linking to Flash objects is possible here too...

today doodlewatch was faster. 1:1

A vertical strip of trim appears in the SERP next to the ads for some search terms. For the term "Christmas" there is a strip of colored light bulbs. In past years the trim varied with search terms.

www.google.com/images/icons/xmas_2009.gif

google.com/search?q=christmas& ...

2008 blogoscoped.com/forum/146822.h ...
2007 blogoscoped.com/forum/118605.h ...
2005 blogoscoped.com/forum/14864.ht ...
2005 blogoscoped.com/archive/2005-1 ...

I'm not seeing it yet. It was announced here: googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/1 ...

I'm seeing it with hidemyass.com for christmas and hanukkah.

lh6.ggpht.com/_J7sG-Fm0a5Q/SzH ...

lh5.ggpht.com/_J7sG-Fm0a5Q/SzH ...

There is a debate between the christians who prefer "Merry Christmas" and the other who prefer "Happy Hollidays".
seroundtable.com/archives/0213 ...

In your local culture, do you prefer one or the other ? or you don't care ?

Here in France, there is no real difference between "Joyeux Noël" and "Joyeuses Fêtes", and I think many non-christian people can say "Merry christmas" without any problem.

I´ve noticed that too, but personally I don´t care. Here in the Netherlands Fijne feestdagen (Happy Holidays in Dutch) Prettige kerstdagen (Merry Christmas) both are and can be used so far I know. I've never heard a discussion like that here, I think people nag to much,

hebbet: Thanks, and it appears that a picture www.google.com/logos/holiday09_3 dot gif listed here works now.

These doodles are global and Alt texts have been translated too:

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Auch: (via autocompleteme.com/)

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I like this holiday doodle a lot. I think that having the text kind of in the pictures is really cleverly done :)

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