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sports fan Matt
October 7th, 2009, 08:31 PM
Notice the image when typing a search in google for anything...

I assume everyone has seen this today but I wonder why this occured.

schauerlich
October 7th, 2009, 08:33 PM
It's called a bar code. Google changes their logo around frequently. I'm assuming the bar code says "google" or something like that in ASCII.

EDIT: I just looked it up.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/07/AR2009100700130.html


The barcode on the Google homepage is Code 128 encoded, which is a standard way of encoding ASCII character strings (ie. A-Z, a-z, 0-9, etc.)

Exodist
October 7th, 2009, 08:33 PM
Prob tells somewhere whats that is about.. But I seen it also..

Wondered if it was the birthday of the barcode or something .. lol :lolflag:

Tibuda
October 7th, 2009, 08:34 PM
go to google.com
mouse over the logo (don't click)
it displays a tooltip: "Invention of the bar code"

That's it. Google always change its logo due to some weird dates.

sports fan Matt
October 7th, 2009, 08:37 PM
Ah, ok..Yeah I knew what it was but didn't know why it was there..my bad..I'm just glad it wasn't my pc acting odd :lolflag:

sudoer541
October 7th, 2009, 08:43 PM
Notice the image when typing a search in google for anything...

I assume everyone has seen this today but I wonder why this occured.

I just noticed you accidentally posted your Gmail. You may want to remove that sensitive piece of info from the screenshot you posted or just remove the screenshot altogether. :)

schauerlich
October 7th, 2009, 08:44 PM
I just noticed you accidentally posted your Gmail. You may want to remove that sensitive piece of info from the screenshot you posted.

EDavidBurg goes to sign him up for spamza, only to remember that spamza no longer exists. :|

carniola
October 7th, 2009, 08:44 PM
Here's a whole collection of Google logos, if you're interested:

http://www.google.com/logos/index.html

LowSky
October 7th, 2009, 08:50 PM
Google had Gandhi's face stylized into Google's capital letter G like 5 days ago... they do this stuff all the time

http://www.artuji.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/gandhi-october-2.jpg

sports fan Matt
October 7th, 2009, 08:57 PM
Can a mod remove it or can someone explain to me what i need to do?

Edit: I totally forgot that it was displayed. Its not linked to anything, but displaying it is a bad idea

Tibuda
October 7th, 2009, 08:58 PM
Can a mod remove it or can someone explain to me what i need to do?

Edit: I totally forgot that it was displayed. Its not linked to anything, but displaying it is a bad idea

Click the "Edit" button in the original post, click "Go Advanced" and then click "Manage Attachments".

sports fan Matt
October 7th, 2009, 09:03 PM
It should be fixed

Joeb454
October 7th, 2009, 09:06 PM
I'm assuming the bar code says "google" or something like that in ASCII

It does, somebody at work decided to print it off and check it with one of our barcode scanners :)

Jose Catre-Vandis
October 7th, 2009, 09:36 PM
Was amazed to read that the barcode was patented by in 1952, but folks first started work on similar systems in the 1930's