Sesame Street Google Doodles
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Google is an Internet search engine, e-mail service provider, online map provider, video sharing, and social networking website. Founded by students at Stanford University in 1998, it is the most visited website in the world.[1] Google is available in various languages, including fictional and comedic languages such as Klingon, Elmer Fudd, and Bork Bork Bork.
Google's very first paid employee was Craig Silverstein, who founded the rec.arts.henson+muppets newsgroup.[2]
On their main page, anniversaries, special events, famous birthdays, and other occasions are highlighted with special artwork incorporated into the Google logo, referred to as "Google Doodles." On Wednesday, November 4th, 2009, Google featured Big Bird's legs with a link to search results for Sesame Street's 40th anniversary. This was followed by representations of other Sesame Street characters on following days.
Sesame Workshop's online store made a T-shirt with each design for free with any order including 40th Anniversary merchandise on the corresponding day; for example, the Big Bird design on November 4. These continued on for a week.
Google's official blog commented on the company's partnership with Sesame Workshop and featured a link to the song "Google Bugle", an unusual use of the term "google" 16 years before the founding of the search engine. For Sesame Street's final doodle on November 10th, 2009, the blog announced a special birthday surprise, offering a high resolution gallery of the week long doodle celebration. All twelve images are offered as larger, higher resolution images for download. As an added bonus Google even a gives a sneak peak into the photo shoot that yielded the final doodle.
Main 40th Anniversary Google Doodles
Big Bird
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Cookie Monster
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Oscar the Grouch
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Elmo
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Count von Count
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Sesame Street Cast
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 T-shirt available at the Sesamestreet.org shop on 11/4/09 |
 T-shirt available at the Sesamestreet.org shop on 11/5/09 |
 T-shirt available at the Sesamestreet.org shop on 11/6/09 |
 T-shirt available at the Sesamestreet.org shop on 11/7/09 |
 T-shirt available at the Sesamestreet.org shop on 11/8/09 |
 T-shirt available at the Sesamestreet.org shop on 11/9/09 |
 T-shirt available at the Sesamestreet.org shop on 11/10/09 |
International Google Doodles
On November 4, some international versions of Google used a special logo depicting a character from a local version of Sesame Street in place of the Big Bird logo, while the United Kingdom and other regions of Europe used a logo marking the 20th anniversary of British cartoon characters Wallace & Gromit. Starting November 5, all international Google sites (with the exception of those that do not use the standard Google logo) used the same Sesame Street logos, starting with Cookie Monster. On November 9, Google's German page used a logo honoring the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. On November 10, the final Sesame Street doodle made its way to the German Google page as well.
Sources
- ↑ Google.com at Alexa.com
- ↑ The Guardian, May 2007
