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The Mystery of the Missing 'L'

Ryan Blitstein writes in The Mercury News:

Would a Google by any other name search as sweet? That's what visitors to Google.com might have asked themselves Wednesday morning, after the Mountain View search giant posted a puzzling holiday "Google Doodle" logo on its home page.

The doodle, which substituted a mouthwatering chocolate-covered strawberry for the second 'G' in the company moniker, was meant to celebrate Valentine's Day. Instead, the logo touched off a firestorm of blogger commentary that the $10 billion company had forgotten how to spell its own name. What appeared on the page seemed to read: "Googe."

More here.

For what its worth, my girlfriend Lori has her own theory. She says "'L' is for 'Love' and there's no love at Google." Go, girl. :-)

posted by Fergie @ 2/14/2007 06:13:00 PM