The Google logo, on the other hand, is iconic itself, using a series of primary colors and simple font to read.

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When you go to Google's site, you're greeted by a mostly white screen, bearing a large colorful Google logo and little else.

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Remember how we found out that there's a difference between the Google-branded Android firmware and its HTC-modified equivalent, and the latter isn't allowed to feature the silkscreened Google logo?

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This birthday party is available for every person in the world to view on the official Google homepage in the form of a Google doodle, one of the little embellishments to the Google logo that the creative team draws up on a regular basis to illustrate the otherwise sparse website.

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Toying with Google's logo, created by independent graphic designer Ruth Kedar in 1998, is part of the company's culture.

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This included a blackout across significant portions of the Worldwide Web, with Wikipedia going dark and Google blackening its logo.

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Informal to a fault, Google offices are littered with party-colored lava lamps, bins of free Coke and candy and giant plastic balls that invoke Google's multicolored logo.

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You can also go directly into its Yelp page and take a peek at individual reviews. (Apple also cleverly sneaked in an easter egg: all of its stores are represented by an Apple logo.) Google Street View fans will be disappointed to see that there isn't really an equivalent feature here.

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In August 1998, Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin decided to adorn the company logo with a symbol of Burning Man, a festival held annually in the Nevada desert that they were attending.

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