A gallery of the search engine’s most obscure doodled logos.

Great article I love looking at all the logos to check out the online logo design competition that I could be facing and fellow designers of course, i have enjoyed reading your piece.

i too signed up just to comment (the sign up process took a long time- beware...bad servers?). writing angles like this make me sad. not only do they reiterate all the negative anti-culture, anti-art attitudes about americans, but they line the pockets of fresh-out-of-undergrad journalism students, who are probably already funded by daddy's money. the only good part was seeing all the different google logos grouped together. this sounds like a cheerleader trying desperately to be smart: criticism means not liking something, right? hey caitlin, read some derrida.

I completely agree with rebopine. The only reason I signed up for this site was to comment on this ridiculous article attacking Google for no other reason than one persons non-creative mind. The whole comment about the Braille inspired logo showed everyone that you have a personal problem with Google. "the color-coded signage is useless to anyone for whom Braille is actually intended" so if it was black and white people who read Braille would be able to feel it better through their monitors. I think not considering it's on the screen and not actually in a book. If this were however colored Braille in a published book I would agree with you. However it isn't, the logo was design to honor the memory of Louise Braille. Let's try something new, Let's think before we type and perhaps find a new editor one that won't let you sound like a moron.

I think 'smug' isn't the correct word to be used in this article. Smug has negative connotations which would imply google is making their logos deliberately harder and harder to read, which I think is not the case. Yes, google has become confident in the recognisability of their logo and color scheme, and this has led them to modify it to mark special days in history (which is a great expansion on the idea of seasonal styled layouts for webpages). I will not argue that some of them aren't hard to read, but how often does someone going to google actually read the logo? they know they typed in http://www.google.com or a similar redirect in their browsers address bar, they don't even need to take a half a glance at it and often don't, unless it's one of their unique designs, in which case it stops them cold as the other comment said, and sparks their curiosity. They investigate why is it different, and if they can't figure it out on their own then the truth is just a hover away. maybe a 10 delay in finding information, but it makes it more memorable and enjoyable an experience learning something new about that day.

In regards to your comments on the Braille logo, the color makes no difference to anyone Braille is intended for, and neither does it actually being in Braille. It's a computer screen that does not have raised lettering, so for all the people Braille is intended for, the logo is irrelevant, no matter what the color scheme is. Yes, there are screen reader programs to assist in accessibility, but to the best of my knowledge they read off image titles and alt-text, and do not actually 'read' an image.