Google Doodle Puzzles
Google Doodles, the logos that remind searchers of historical events and birthdays of famous people on Google’s homepage by substituting, just for that day, the classic Google logo, have a large following on many internet news websites.
What makes the logos interesting, apart from often being humorous and the way the drawings become part of the word “Google”, is the fact that they can often puzzle internet users that aren’t aware of the historical event celebrated, and the puzzle can last for many days, with new Doodles that make the game enjoyable for all users trying to solve it.
The latest Google Doodle puzzle celebrated the 143rd birthday of science-fiction writer H.G. Wells, and showed an UFO stealing Google’s letters with a tractor beam.
On September 5th Google promoted the new logos with a riddle on Twitter, using a popular internet meme from Japanese shoot’em up game Zero Wing, famous for it’s terrible English translation and the sentence “All your base are belong to us”, changing it to “All your O are belong to us” when the alien spaceship stole the second O from Google’s logo.
Ten days later another tweet pointed to the coordinates of Horsell Common in England, whose residents witnessed the first UFO landing in H.G. Well’s “The War of the Worlds”, and the Google Doodle showed a flying saucer over a cornfield with the word “Google” written in crop circles.
The final Doodle published on September 21st was clickable, and by linking through to searches about H. G. Wells, revealed clearly that it was about the birthday of the great science-fiction novelist.
Normally Google Doodles are clickable, and lead to a SERP related to the event they celebrate. This can be a good SEO opportunity, if you are able to anticipate what the next Doodles will be about and prepare a good page about the topic, but more predictably, an updated page about Google logos could attract traffic every time the logo changes.
0
Loading ...