Search Engines celebrate Holidays
For many years now, Google has customized its logo design in accordance with holidays, occasions, events and anniversaries. This trend was enthusiastically observed and largely appreciated. As a result, many websites and search engines followed course and started expressing their celebration mood in a communicative and graphical manner.
As the holiday season approaches, different websites feature the elements of revelry, joy, festivities and fun in them in varied ways. However, the search engines displayed these elements in ways no one else did.
Yahoo:
Yahoo, in its signature Flash animated style, featured a snowman in one corner and gifts at the other, with Yahoo! in between as its holiday logo. Upon dragging the cursor to the logo, two children with a dog can be seen running towards the gifts. If you click the logo, Yahoo directs you to its Yahoo Events page where you can get recipes, shop, and do other activities related to holidays.
Dogpile:
Dogpile had a simple demonstration of holiday fever. It shows its mascot, the Dog, in Santa’s uniform with a bag of goodies, standing in front of a Christmas tree. On clicking the Dog, the search engine takes you to a web search of Christmas cards, which was the theme for this year.
SE Roundtable:
There isn’t much to describe SE Roundtable’s holiday logo, except that it is simple, significant and full of holiday spirit.
Ask.com:
Ask probably had the most intelligently designed interface. At the first glance, it seemed that Ask used a Flash animation in its background. But if looked closely, pretty smart html coding that transforms certain elements into an animation of falling snowflakes was used. A must see for everyone. But it didn’t work on IE 6, as the version doesn’t support it.
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January 15th, 2008 at 10:58 am
I would have to say that google has by far done this the best of any search engine. I often find their drawings great for most of the holidays they celebrate. But I do have to admit the the design that ask but up for the winter holidays is very nice.
January 21st, 2008 at 6:40 am
I agree. Google always has the best holiday logos. The Ask.com one above is great! I like SE Roundtable’s as well.