Google changes its logo for Gandhi Jayanti
October 2nd, 2009 - 1:50 am ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
Mountain View, Oct 1 (THAINDIAN NEWS) The front-runner in the searching technology – Google is known for its clean and usable UI. However on important days they do spice up their clean UI with a graphic image symbolizing that day.
Hence, on the occasion of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi’s birthday Google morphed its logo into Gandhi’s image.
As it is already 2nd October in the eastern part of the world, so the customized Google websites particular to that country are showing up the Gandhi images.
Google’s Thailand website http://www.google.co.th/ has a Gandhi image on it and it is encouraging users to search the keywords ‘Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi’
Google’s Australia website http://www.google.com.au/ has a Gandhi image on it and it is encouraging users to search the keywords ‘Gandhi’
Google’s Japan website http://www.google.co.jp/ has a Gandhi image on it and it is encouraging users to search the keywords ‘ガンジー‘
Google’s Hong Kong website http://www.google.com.hk/ has a Gandhi image on it and it is encouraging users to search the keywords ‘甘地’
At the time of publishing, 00:12 am October 2 (Indian time) the logo on Google’s Indian website is yet to be updated.
Google Thailand homepage showing Gandhi Logo
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