Google has always been surprisingly random in the historical events it chooses to highlight by changing the logo on the front page. All last week they chose to highlight Sesame Street by promoting different characters from the show to celebrate the T.V. show’s 40th Anniversary.
If you follow these things, you’ll know that Google celebrated the birthday of H.G. Wells, the USB code, Comic Con, and crop circles in the same way.
On today’s anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, however, Americans get another Sesame Street theme featuring the “Count.”
Rest assured though, they give a “hat tip” to the historical day by linking to an excellent photo archive of the Berlin Wall from Life magazine.
The slideshow is very good; props to Google for assembling it for their users.
In Germany, Google users get the very own Berlin Wall commemorative logo:
For an archive of Google logos, click here
