The folks at Google sure love mathematical and philosophical references, like the mathematical riddle posted on a billboard as a means of recruiting new engineers, and most recently today’s homepage Doodle.
Today’s Valentines Doodle caused some buzz due to its seemingly incorrect spelling, ‘Googe’. Some people even went to the extreme and claimed Google is indeed considering a name change. Some claim that the designers simply forgot the letter L. Others argue that the strawberry stem may be the missing letter. Personally, I thought the G and L are living up to the occasion, L being the chocolate covering the G. Who knows, it’s all one big mystery…
Except for those who truly know love, says Dennis Hwang of Google in a post entitled “Strawberries Are Red, Stems Are Green” (hint hint!) on the Official Google Blog, stating:
I just know that those with true romance and poetry in their soul will see the subtlety immediately.
It’s safe to say the strawberry stem has some L’ness to it, but there’s more to the subtlety. What might ‘Googe’ be? Why, a quick Googling of the term returns a Wikipedia entry for Barnabe Googe, an English poet well-known for one line of poetry, I did but see her passing by, and yet I love her till I die. I’m sure there’s lots more…
Happy Valentines Day!
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This entry was posted by Patrick Mylund Nielsen on Wednesday, February 14th, 2007, at 11:33 pm, and was filed in the Internet, Asides categories with the tag(s) Google.
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