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Unexplained Phenomenon is H.G. Wells

WebSonic.nl [PersonRank 10]

Sunday, September 20, 2009
14 years ago3,025 views

http://www.google.com.au/logos/hgwells09.gif

WebSonic.nl [PersonRank 10]

14 years ago #

Background info:

Logo 1: Unexplained Phenomenon
http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2009-09-05-n62.html

Logo 2: Crop circles
http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2009-09-15-n55.html

Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

14 years ago #

The alt text of the logo is "Birthday of H.G. Wells". The search is for [H.G. Wells]. The top result at the moment for me is Wikipedia:

<<Herbert George Wells (21 September [today] 1866 – 13 August 1946), was an English author, best known for his work in the science fiction genre. Wells and Jules Verne are each often referred to as "The Father of Science Fiction".] (...)

His early novels, called "scientific romances", invented a number of themes now classic in science fiction in such works as The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, When the Sleeper Wakes, and The First Men in the Moon.>>

Sergio [PersonRank 0]

14 years ago #

Today the logo/alt/search appears correctly translated into several european Googles (.de, .it) but in Spain, for a while, it appeared withouth linking to the search and with the alt text "Not for Spain":

http://www.persuadis.es/uploaded_images/notforspain2-741901.png

Ionut Alex. Chitu [PersonRank 10]

14 years ago #

The explanation for the ALT text seems to be this one: http://tallerseo.blogspot.com/2009/09/google-punishes-spanish-seos.html

Sergio [PersonRank 0]

14 years ago #

I doubt that's the reason. Since the logo has been up in Spain only during the sunday-monday night, and approximately at 10:00 has been retired, I thing it's more likely a mistake. Also, I doubt that trying to position a page for the doodle searches only happens in Spain.

WebSonic.nl [PersonRank 10]

14 years ago #

The big version of the logo:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7ZYqYi4xigk/Srb8WgkT7dI/AAAAAAAAEkM/kwtx1NT4jzc/s1600-h/hg_wells_birthday2009_part3_highres.jpg

WebSonic.nl [PersonRank 10]

14 years ago #

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/mysterious-series-for-hg-wells.html

Juha-Matti Laurio [PersonRank 10]

14 years ago #

This doodle is international

http://www.google.fi/logos/hgwells09.gif

Juha-Matti Laurio [PersonRank 10]

14 years ago #

Try to search
http://books.google.com/books?q=the+war+of+the+worlds&btnG=Search+Books
(Google's tip)

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