# Anyone Get Today's Google Logo Redesign?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-get-todays-google-logo-redesign/227309
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [February 3, 2004, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-get-todays-google-logo-redesign/227309 "2004-02-03T11:03:38Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@ColonelDax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ColonelDax)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2004, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-get-todays-google-logo-redesign/227309/1 "2004-02-03T11:03:38Z")
I sure don’t. Some of the letters have been restyled in a funky-but-not-obvious-to-me-what-it-means way, and there are some math equations in a background gray screen at the top.
I had a quick look to see if this is the anniversary of a famous birth, death or other event, but didn’t see anything that leaped out at first glance. (It would be a very odd way to comemmorate ``The Day the Misic Died’’ in 1959; while we’re at it, happy birthday to Nathan Lane and a moment of silence for Boris Karloff.)
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### Author:  [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2004, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-get-todays-google-logo-redesign/227309/2 "2004-02-03T11:07:43Z")
They’re fractals. Don’t know if it’s for anything. They’re just kinda neat looking.
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### Author:  [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2004, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-get-todays-google-logo-redesign/227309/3 "2004-02-03T11:10:21Z")
Note the mouseover text: [Gaston Julia](http://www.fractovia.org/people/julia.html). He came up with the rather beautiful fractal pattern called the Julia Set, and he was born on February 3 1893, 111 years ago today.
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### Author:  [@RumMunkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RumMunkey)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2004, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-get-todays-google-logo-redesign/227309/4 "2004-02-03T11:11:02Z")
Click the logo and it perfoms a search on julia fractals.
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### Author:  [@ColonelDax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ColonelDax)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2004, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-get-todays-google-logo-redesign/227309/5 "2004-02-03T11:12:23Z")
> [@ColonelDax](#):
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> (It would be a very odd way to comemmorate ``The Day the Misic Died’’ in 1959; while we’re at it, happy birthday to Nathan Lane and a moment of silence for Boris Karloff.)
Reminder to self: Take a second to proofread so as to avoid mistakes such as misspelling ``music.’’
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### Author:  [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2004, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-get-todays-google-logo-redesign/227309/6 "2004-02-03T11:12:32Z")
Note that if you click on the groovy Google logo, you get taken to image search results for various Julia sets. Kinda neat that they’ve come up with a fairly obscure anniversary for today.
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### Author:  [@Desmostylus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desmostylus)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2004, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-get-todays-google-logo-redesign/227309/7 "2004-02-03T11:30:59Z")
> [@r\_k](#):
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> Kinda neat that they’ve come up with a fairly obscure anniversary for today.
You don’t seem to have realized that the Google people are complete and utter geeks. 😉
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### Author:  [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2004, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-get-todays-google-logo-redesign/227309/8 "2004-02-03T16:34:29Z")
The one on the left is kind of Mandelbrotey.
Well, okay, not exactly. I just wanted to say “Mandelbrotey.” 🙂
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### Author:  [@tremorviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tremorviolet)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2004, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-get-todays-google-logo-redesign/227309/9 "2004-02-03T18:47:56Z")
> [@Desmostylus](#):
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> You don’t seem to have realized that the Google people are complete and utter geeks. 😉
As are most of us:) I just spent twenty minutes explaining fractals to my bored coworker using the shoreline analogy and Serpinski gaskets…
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### Author:  [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2004, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-get-todays-google-logo-redesign/227309/10 "2004-02-03T20:26:22Z")
Looks like Google needs to be more careful about this kind of thing. From [http://www.unpronounceable.com/julia/julia-alt-015.html](http://www.unpronounceable.com/julia/julia-alt-015.html)
> [@](#):
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> Help! Google has put my Julia Fractals site in the first page of their Julia Fractals search and linked the search page to their title graphic! My bandwidth and disk space (due to log file usage) are going through the roof and are going to cost me serious $$$ unless I take this site down immediately. If I can get enough donations to cover the extra costs, I’d be happy to keep it up. So, please consider donating like $5 or $10 ( although any amount is greatly appreciated! ) to help keep my sites going. It’s not just this site that is in jeopardy but all of my sites at [http://www.unpronounceable.com/](http://www.unpronounceable.com/) . Thanks!
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### Author:  [@alice\_adrift](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_adrift)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2004, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-get-todays-google-logo-redesign/227309/11 "2004-02-03T23:16:59Z")
> [@r\_k](#):
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> Note the mouseover text: [Gaston Julia](http://www.fractovia.org/people/julia.html). He came up with the rather beautiful fractal pattern called the Julia Set, and he was born on February 3 1893, 111 years ago today.
neat, my birthday is today, too. not that i didn’t anything cool. well, once in driver’s ed i taught myself to blow a bubble within a bubble with my gum. that’s pretty much it.
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### Author:  [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2004, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-get-todays-google-logo-redesign/227309/12 "2004-02-04T00:43:06Z")
See also [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=4513081#post4513081).