Google Valentine’s Day logo February 14th 2008

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I guess you noticed today is Valentine’s Day and just like last year Google changed the logo at the Google start page:

Google Valentine’s Day 2008

Clicking the logo takes you to the result page for “valentine’s day“.

Yahoo! did a similar thing with their logo. Some birds fly in, start flirting and kiss at the end:

Even YouTube managed to creat a special YouTube Valentine’s Day logo:

I went looking for some previous Google Valentine’s Day logo’s and these are the ones I could find:

Valentine’s Day 2007:

Google Valentine’s Day 2007

Valentine’s Day 2005:

Google Valentine’s Day 2005

Valentine’s Day 2004:

Google Valentine’s Day 2004

Valentine’s Day 2003:

Google Valentine’s Day 2003

Valentine’s Day 2001:

Google Valentine’s Day 2001

Valentine’s Day I don’t know what year, but I found it on Google:

Google Valentine’s Day

What happened with the Google logo on February 14th in 2006, 2002 and before 2001 I couldn’t find. Maybe you know?

The Live Search home page looked just the same today as it did yesterday and the day before…

Comments

15 February 2008

Dennis van Leeuwen

Persoonlijk vind ik dat het geanimeerde logo van Yahoo dit jaar toch beter is dan dat van Google :)
18 March 2008

Fyrebird

Google started in 1998, and in the early years only did a few special logos – that first year, only Thanksgiving. 2000 was the first year they had a Valentine Logo, which is the Cupid one.

For some reason, their logo archive pages only have selected art. The only way you’ll find the “missing” years is if you can find somebody who embedded them, as you did with these.
18 March 2008

Fyrebird

Well, you got me curious, so I did some searching. Suddenly, a lightbulb went off over my head. I checked it out, and my epiphany turned out to be correct: there were no Valentine’s Day logos in 2002 and 2006 because the date overlapped the Winter Olympics in Torino and Salt Lake City, respectively. They do special logos every day during the Olympics, and thus don’t do a Valentine’s Day one.
6 July 2008

Racing Schools

Aren’t those Valentine Logos just out of the world? These folks at Google are way beyond Cool.