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sraun ([personal profile] sraun) wrote2008-05-01 08:24 am
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Anyone know why Google has a special logo today?

[identity profile] adina-atl.livejournal.com 2008-05-01 01:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Google-fu for the win!

Hovering over the image gives a tooltip of "By Jeff Koons." Googling Jeff Koons gets his wikipedia page, which explains that he's an American artist and includes:

He rendered a drawing similar to his famous "Tulip Balloons" for placement on the front page of the Internet search engine Google. The drawing greeted all who visited Google's main page on April 30, 2008 (that day being Queen's Day in the Netherlands).

[identity profile] welshbard.livejournal.com 2008-05-01 04:10 pm (UTC)(link)
I wonder if it is merely coincidence or plan that Queen's Day in the Netherlands is on May Eve/Beltaine?