Every year Google features a special logo for the New Year, on its home-page. Here is the Google New Years logo for the current year 2010.

Apart from the past New Years logos, you can see all the special Google logos released on various occassions for Tadataka Ino’s Birthday (Japan), Lantern Festival (China), Božena N?mcová’s Birthday – (Poland), Sabiha Gökçen’s Birthday – (Turkey), Vasaloppet – (Sweden), National Artist of Thailand – (Thailand), Carnival – (Brazil), Australia Day – (Australia) and many more!
Visit Google Logos.
While visiting that website, you might also want to check out the special logos created by fans for Google.

When Google was a Stanford research project, it was nicknamed BackRub because the technology checks backlinks to determine a site’s importance.
Special ‘Hidden’ Google Pages may also interest you.
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