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[Logo] Chopin Birthday

Moses [PersonRank 0]

Monday, March 1, 2010
14 years ago4,003 views

http://www.google.pl/logos/chopin10-hp.gif

on google.pl

Juha-Matti Laurio [PersonRank 10]

14 years ago #

The search is

http://www.google.pl/#q=Chopin&ct=chopin10-hp&oi=ddle&fp=2804a89cea128776

and Polish people use format 'Fryderyk', not 'Frédéric'

Juha-Matti Laurio [PersonRank 10]

14 years ago #

Was this global, BTW?

(http://www.google.com/logos/chopin10-hp.gif)

hebbet [PersonRank 10]

14 years ago #

no it was not global. you can edit the tdl of all doodle URLs and will see it

eg. Japanese Doodle4Google
http://www.google.co.jp/logos/d4g_jp10-hp.gif

google.fi
http://www.google.fi/logos/d4g_jp10-hp.gif

google.com.et
http://www.google.com.et/logos/d4g_jp10-hp.gif

google.fr
http://www.google.fr/logos/d4g_jp10-hp.gif

google.com
http://www.google.com/logos/d4g_jp10-hp.gif
google.de
http://www.google.de/logos/d4g_jp10-hp.gif

ianf [PersonRank 10]

14 years ago #

> Poles use format 'Fryderyk', not 'Frédéric'

Juha-Matti, it's even worse than that, occassionally they spell him phonetically "Szopen;" have renamed the showcase Warsaw Airport –once a beautiful relic of late 60?s socialist concrete air-barack architecture– the "Chopin Airport," and mine the composer's historical Polish roots for all they can by drowning innocent Western youths' hunger for novelty binge drinking with "Chopin" vodka brand served off frosted-glass reverse-embossed bottles! Ah, the marketing perfidy of it all!

Juha-Matti Laurio [PersonRank 10]

14 years ago #

Interesting, I was not aware of the background of airport naming.

Possibly the alt tag of the doodle was Fryderyk Chopin as well.

Juha-Matti Laurio [PersonRank 10]

14 years ago #

[put at-character here]hebbet:

I was aware that the tld can be changed, but not sure that Google keeps doodles online after the "campaigns" too.

Also google.se:

http://www.google.se/logos/d4g_jp10-hp.gif

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