# Today's Google logo **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 6, 2012, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-google-logo/640053 "2012-11-06T06:21:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-google-logo/640053/1 "2012-11-06T06:21:27Z")
A friend just sent me a copy of today’s voting logo on Google, saying the blue ballots are giving the finger to the red e. I don’t see how it’s giving the finger, but I never get things like that quickly and it’s late and I’m tired. Can anyone explain it? ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-google-logo/640053/2 "2012-11-06T06:24:08Z")
Your friend is seeing things that are not there. ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-google-logo/640053/3 "2012-11-06T06:26:32Z")
Google Doodle. I see how the g and l sort of form a sort of what might be looked at as a hand giving the finger (to someone who might be high, or 8), but the g is red and the l is blue, so making the conclusion your friend did doesn’t make sense. Plus, that’s just not what’s going on there. It’s just ballots going into the box. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-google-logo/640053/4 "2012-11-06T08:55:47Z")
Looks like a stick figure trying to clim into/out of the box to me. ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-google-logo/640053/5 "2012-11-06T08:57:58Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Looks like a stick figure trying to clim into/out of the box to me. Looks like a stick figure waving to me. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-google-logo/640053/6 "2012-11-06T14:21:13Z")
I think your friend is trying to wring one last small squealing bit of manufactured outrage out of the silly season. ---
**Author:** ![Disheavel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@Disheavel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Disheavel)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-google-logo/640053/7 "2012-11-06T16:39:39Z")
I can see it, but I think it is not intentional and is really forcing something that isn’t really there- especially since the g is also red. The L is the middle finger and the g are the other curled fingers so that we are looking from the “side” of the hand [insert left-hand rule and current flowing toward the viewer joke here]. The g squiggle and the very bottom of the l are the wrist. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-google-logo/640053/8 "2012-11-06T16:46:55Z")
I see a wang. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-google-logo/640053/9 "2012-11-06T16:52:40Z")
If anything it looks like 8 red ballots and 5 blue ones being sucked into the box. The shape of the ballots looks vaguely human but there is no finger, not even hand, just arm. ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-google-logo/640053/10 "2012-11-06T21:57:54Z")
Also, I just counted, it looks like the number of red and blue ballots is equal. Probably precisely to prevent people from thinking Google is stealth supporting someone by giving one guy 22 votes and the other 23 or something similarly asinine. Apparently they didn’t predict other ways people could manufacture bias out of their art. ---
**Author:** ![RadicalPi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/radicalpi/32/9806_2.png) [@RadicalPi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RadicalPi)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-google-logo/640053/11 "2012-11-06T22:45:33Z")
Are there any days anymore when Google doesn’t have some stupid doodle? ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-google-logo/640053/12 "2012-11-06T22:53:15Z")
> [@Jragon](#): > > Also, I just counted, it looks like the number of red and blue ballots is equal. Probably precisely to prevent people from thinking Google is stealth supporting someone by giving one guy 22 votes and the other 23 or something similarly asinine. Apparently they didn’t predict other ways people could manufacture bias out of their art. I count 23 each. ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-google-logo/640053/13 "2012-11-06T23:22:02Z")
> [@teela\_brown](#): > > I count 23 each. Yes? I said they were equal. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-google-logo/640053/14 "2012-11-06T23:47:31Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > I see a wang. It’s a _SCHOONER_! ---
**Author:** ![nion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c5a1d2/32.png) [@nion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nion)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-google-logo/640053/15 "2012-11-07T05:37:03Z")
> [@RadicalPi](#): > > Are there any days anymore when Google doesn’t have some stupid doodle? Okay, I’ll bite: Why so offended by Googles love of doodles? ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-google-logo/640053/16 "2012-11-07T05:46:53Z")
> [@nion](#): > > Okay, I’ll bite: Why so offended by Googles love of doodles? Because some has to be. I don’t think we have very many “Did you see today’s Google Doodle” without someone not being able to just ignore it. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-google-logo/640053/17 "2012-11-07T05:58:56Z")
For Example: > [@Google Moog](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-moog/622778/6): > > Won’t work for me using fully updated Firefox. I’m running NoScript and AdBlock, so I wonder if that has something to do with it. Regardless, I’m sick of Google and the fucking doodles and all of the other crap they clutter up their page with. All I want is a clean, useful search engine. > > I do think they should have one day where the Google search page is mint green in honor of their obvious and pathetic Facebook envy. > [@Easy way to block Google Doodles?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easy-way-to-block-google-doodles/630328/1): > > Google seems to have taken a cue from Frannie Forwarder—from the occasional neat, commemorative Google Doodles to a steady stream of glurgey bullshit that I have no use for (they’re all over my lawn). When there’s an interesting interactive Doodle, there are plenty of places that fawn over them and I’ll seek one out on an alternate browser (e.g. I.E.). But for now, given Google’s proclivity to go all MySpace/Tripod with their pages, I’d like to find a way to get rid of it. Can Adblock help with this? Is there a way for NoScript to kill it without losing other functionality? White Out? > [@Google is getting fucking annoying with its "art"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-is-getting-fucking-annoying-with-its-art/581221/1): > > I could juuust tolerate having every obscure 178th birthday of such and such visual artist “celebrated” with some fucked up version of the Google logo, because at least it changed once and then stayed that way all day. But now, as I have Google as my home page for convenience, every time I open a new browser window I see a _different_ fucking cartoon version of the Google logo based on one of the most [moronic](http://www.google.com/logos/2011/hargreaves11-hp-16.jpg) pieces of animation I’ve ever had the displeasure to view. ETA I was a bit off in the previous post. Most threads about the doodles don’t have people getting bent out of shape about them, but there are people annoyed by them. ---
**Author:** ![nion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c5a1d2/32.png) [@nion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nion)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-google-logo/640053/18 "2012-11-07T06:16:21Z")
Ah, I see… Well, for those of you who can’t seem to maneuver your cursor past a google doodle to the search bar, I present a couple of tips: Typing something besides a website in the URL field in Chrome results in a doodle-free google search. Alternatively, signing into a google/gmail account allows options to set up a personalized google homepage that omits the doodles. One must click on a small, animated widget to see them when they are there. I do truly feel bad for those whose cursors and minds can’t steer past them though, honestly. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-google-logo/640053/19 "2012-11-07T06:24:23Z")
I can understand when you run your mouse over it and it turns out to be a ‘live’ instrument (piano, moog synth etc) that you weren’t expecting and you’re at work and your speakers are turned up and you’re on the phone. But when it’s, literally, just a different design of the word “Google”, I don’t get it. When it is something that’s going to make noise, I wouldn’t mind some sort of ‘start’ button. Even if it takes more then a mouseover to get it going. Just so I don’t accidentally do it while I’m on the phone with a customer and they suddenly hear a guitar playing from my computer. When people get that worked up over a logo change, I wonder if maybe they need to find a new search engine…or retire from the internet, since it grows and changes every single day. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-google-logo/640053/20 "2012-11-07T11:06:51Z")
It wouldn’t surprise me if the poster in question just thinks that they’ve become so common that they aren’t as special anymore. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-google-logo/640053.md?page=2)