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What’s Up With the Google Logo Unexplained Phenomenon?

Arnold Zafra

09/5/09

31 Comments

Oh common Google, not on a Saturday morning please (well at least for me it’s Saturday evening) Can somebody please explain the meaning of this logo which was spotted by the Telegraph a couple of hours ago on Google.com? The new Google logo doodle shows an image of a UFO. We all know of course that Google changes its logo from time to time whenever a special event is happening.

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Last time I checked, there’s no such thing as World UFO Day. Or is it the  anniversary of the first sighting of a UFO by man? I don’t think so.

What’s so interesting about this unexplained phenomenon on the Google logo is the fact that it links to a search for the term “unexplained phenomenon” which is currently the top trending search terms on Google today together with the search terms “top 10 unexplained phenomena”.

So can somebody explain what the logo means? Or was it just a product of some Google engineers whose got nothing better to do on  a Saturday morning? Or is there something extra ordinary happening next week or in the days to come?

31 Comments

  • jacky says:

    Because it is instantaneous and fun. Because people talk about it. Because nerds love it. All they need now is to have a ’secret’ konami code on their front page.

  • Diego says:

    I found this interesting as well. I had just read an article at the Reality Sandwich site that may have something to do with it.
    “Releasing thousands of classified documents on UFO sightings, the United Kingdom, France, Sweden, Brazil, and Russia have made huge steps toward revealing information on possible extraterrestrial visitations.”
    http://www.realitysandwich.com/here_not_here

  • Victoria says:

    Why is that thing on the google thing is there was there a UFO sighing if there was
    wouldnt they tell us ???????????? werid????????????????

  • HelloKitty says:

    Google: Project Blue Beam

  • Steve Bland says:

    it represents what happened to american gmail thursday. it was abducted

  • Well it’s simple. If they were to explain about it, then it’s appearing as part of their logo wouldn’t be an unexplained phenomenon. Would it?

    Of course, that’s one of the geekiest concepts on earth. But then that’s Google…

  • Ricardo Ribeiro says:

    “Or was it just a product of some Google engineers whose got nothing better to do on a Saturday morning? ”

    The same way you got nothing better to do on a Saturday evening other than write about this.

  • Sac Jack says:

    It’s a recursive doodle. Talk about geeky! Good for Google…

  • Is it maybe something to do with the anniversary of a huge “ufo” sighting in England about 50 years ago or something. The sighting caused huge conspiracy theories to appear, and it was named something like “Britain’s Roswell” or something like that. A man has recently come forward and said that the “ufo sighting” was infact him and his brother setting fire to a truck full of fertiliser in some woodland.

    That’s my guess anyway.

  • karl roebling says:

    The special Sept. 5 Google logo references the UFO festival in Exeter of this day.
    http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20090811-NEWS-908110332

    • gman says:

      it has nothing to do with this stupid festival get over it, show me where in this does it say anything about google using the logo or refere to google atall, why would google put this stupid festival in the same class as a moon landing or michael jackson birthday, whoever thinks its because of that stupid festival is an idiot and you deserver no to know….. heres the article and the lame event

      The special Sept. 5 Google logo references the UFO festival in Exeter of this day.
      http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20090811-NEWS-908110332

  • GeorgeM says:

    Google was incorporated as a private company on September 4, 1998 eventually becoming an “unexplained phenomenom”.

  • Mike says:

    They did it just to irritate you and make stupid people ask stupid questions. If you would click on the image you would find out why. You were curious enough to ask why, but not curious enough to investigate?! Wake up.

    • Shae says:

      People have clicked and searched! and yet no answers, that is why this is such a big deal there is no answer and Google likes to make people ask questions what is the best question maker?

  • bike person says:

    Goooogle is always doing something innovative.

  • Aliens aren’t going to come down and snatch just anyone. They want to get the most out of their capture. Google or google employees make the most sense. Who else knows more about current and vital social trending topics. What the world’s people know, do and desire.

    Google knows all this and is making a public announcement to those aliens asking for communication. :)

    Also the remains of the Roswell, NV crash was recovered by the 509th Bomb Group. Reverse 509 = 905 or 9/05 or Sep, 05 09.

    In all seriousness I have no idea. Just thought I’d get some conspiracy theories a brewin!

  • slimting says:

    READ IMPORTANT!!! dnt skippp!

    the code meenzz …!
    idk i 4got lol oh yea ..
    All Your o Belong to us
    i dont no what it means but in the alphebet a=1 b=2 c=3 d=4 e=5 f=6 g=7 h=8 i=9 j=10 ect ifu write it down te ul get it no im not nerd im 11 years old chea we dunnit in school on friday teehehe and if yo call me a nerd that juz meenzy dumbb o.o!

  • art jewelry says:

    hmmm …

    Sounds like much ado about nothing.

    Google is messing with your mind. Check for a scar at the back of your head.

  • Joe says:

    I think they’re acquiring Yahoo, which will from this day forward be known as “Yah!”

  • I may bet it is connected with google birthday today is 11 years of Google

    Happy Birthday Google!

    That was very easy to brake

    zoransa@gmail.com

  • Shae says:

    Duh… it is the aniversity of UFO first seen by man! obviously…

  • Avene says:

    It looks like an X File, perhaps they are here :).

  • stewkelly says:

    Humm, me thinks someone has too much free time on their hands and has nothing more important to think about or do:)

  • lol says:

    it’s 20th aniversery of that “all your base are belong to us” game

  • StoneCS says:

    No Fear, I’m officially working on it now.

    Should have it cracked in a day or two or 8?

    B)>

  • Archmage says:

    They are testing the social impact of their own media.

  • Hawglegg says:

    Google is trying to explain how the Governor of South Carolina went to the Appalachian Mountains and ended up in BRAZIL playing “poppy” with some journalist. I heard from an insider … “that UFO’s picked him up in the mountains and took him to the nearest radio tower in Brazil.” It looks like she lived in a rural area or nice suburban area with a private beach and her own tower. Maybe she has a studio in her house. … who knows. I bet the Governor is still thinking “THANK GOD FOR MY UFO EXPERIENCE!”

  • StoneCS says:

    Can you believe this was always about H.G. Wells 143rd birthday? Or whatever random # of years it was? They had the nerd community all excited over that? It just seemed way too elaborate for something so easy.

    A lot of the blogs that were following this, pointed out his birthday early on, and with the clues found on the Korean Google blog, it was pretty much solved from the start. But that was just too simple & obvious.

    Nerd Power! B)>

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