Google Bungles its own name, Val Day Logo reads "Googe".

News Type: Event — Seeded on Wed Feb 14, 2007 6:20 AM EST

Article Source: skirmisher.org

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I did a Google Search and what do we see? The giant can't spell its name!

But the giant still has defenders of its cause.

When something so well-loved like Google farts even a few molecules of putrid man-air, the world sniffs it hungrily. So when it somehow "botched" its Valentines logo, almost everybody quickly grabbed their urine-filled water pistols and began sniping at it. No, we're not joining those bunch of shallow fools. No matter how extremists would insist that this is "Googe" and not at all "Google," we're standing by our guns to "protect" a beleaguered company in need of sympathy and insist, like a love-crazed teen heady with his first crush, that Google is Google is Google, and that puny phallic strawberry stem is all that matters. Although they should have made those two o's to resemble the mammary glands of any of our favorite Hollywood @!$%#es. Scarlett Johannson's "puppies" might not hurt.

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NoobieDoobieDo

So when it somehow "botched" its Valentines logo, almost everybody quickly grabbed their urine-filled water pistols and began sniping at it.

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It's pretty significant. How many times have you ever misspelled your name?

How many of those times have been on a document for public release ?

How many of those times resulted in hundreds of millions of people seeing your error ?

I think this incident says a few things, some of which are :

1. This was done on purpose either by google on the whole or a few people inside the company. You'll notice the custom logo it only on the main page - not on the search result pages as it usually is.

2. This was a mistake and the review process for giving the artsy logos the go ahead includes only one person. How could more than one person miss this mistake ? Much time is spent making a logo - how could you possible not notice a missing letter from a word comprised of only six letters?

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#1 - Wed Feb 14, 2007 6:58 AM EST

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Oluseye

Let's say it was intentional.

That would be very strange to mess with their own brand symbol, their logo.

If one single person was responsible for it, that wouldn't indicate a very capable company would it?

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#1.1 - Wed Feb 14, 2007 8:40 AM EST

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indecent

I think its amusing; but I don't think its the big deal that several bloggers and sites are making it out to be. They screwed up; Google isn't perfect; Hoorah!

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1 vote

#1.2 - Wed Feb 14, 2007 9:38 AM EST

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crynyd

I assumed the long stem to be the L. Maybe even the whole strawberry, as the chocolate drizzle makes an easy G.

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4 votes

#2 - Wed Feb 14, 2007 10:01 AM EST

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greer

Yeah, it is.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/02/strawberries-are-red-stems-are-green.html

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1 vote

#2.1 - Wed Feb 14, 2007 3:50 PM EST

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