Googles UFOs stolen the L and left crop circles instead

September 15, 2009 by Gary Illyes  
Filed under iNews

After 10 days Google’s UFO created a buzz on the internet and half of the world was searching for “unexplained phenomenon”, a new UFO has appeared on the Google home pages with a less mysterious Twitter message.

Help! Google's UFO has stolen the L! New Google Doodle creates buzz

Help! Google's UFO has stolen the L! New Google Doodle creates buzz


The Twitter message was:51.327629, -0.5616088 http://twitpic.com/hsfgl
The numbers from the status message are the coordinates of a place in the UK, 1-7 Woodham Rd., Woking, Surrey GU21 4, which you can check on Google Maps.

Interestingly, this address has appeared in a novel, “The War of the Worlds” by H.G. Wells, and this was the place where the first alien ship has landed. When the first UFO Doodle appeared, Google linked the logo to the results page of the “unexpected phenomenon” search term, which made the search term to be in the top ten search queries in the US. Now, the new logo is linked to the results page of the “crop circles” term, which has already appeared in the Hot Trends, yet there’s apparently nothing interesting on the search results page but news results reporting Google’s new Doodle and a few images.

What’s in Google mind? Why are they causing such a buzz with their UFOs? Some questions which have no answer yet.

Google: an unexplained phenomenon?

September 5, 2009 by Gary Illyes  
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The marketing team of Google was always very ingenious. Today’s Doodle shows an UFO stealing one “O” from the Google logo and the Doodle is linked to the search result page of the “unexplained phenomenon” phrase.

Google O stolen by UFO

In the meantime, some UK users reported that the top navigation bar from Google is missing on the search result pages. Were these links also stolen by the UFOs or it’s just a coincidence? The Googlers remain silent, the last we’ve heard from them is “1.12.12 25.15.21.18 15 1.18.5 2.5.12.15.14.7 20.15 21.19.” which translates to “All your O are belong to us”. Since this message appeared on Twitter none of the Google employees commented on the subject.

So what’s the deal with the logo? We don’t know, really. A user on Telegraph.co.uk seems to know the answer, though:

i think that ppl go to the unexplain phenonamon becaz of the chupacapbra but they couldnt put one of those in the google image so they put a ufo instead

Maybe not that’s the answer, though. What’s sure is that now at least half of the World is searching for the “unexplained phenomenon” phrase which made the term appear in the “top 10 most searched phrases” list. So, maybe it’s just another extremely smart marketing move from Google…