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Amuse Bouche: Google Art Entertainment

Friday, November 21st, 2008

Google frequently changes its logo to honor important holidays, birthdays or generally significant days in history. On Spanish painter Diego Velazquez’ birthday, the company embedded the word “google” into his masterpiece “Las Meninas.” They gave the same treatment to French painter Marc Chagall on his birthday.The Mountain View-based behemoth gets to jazz it up while educating users at the same time. Check out today’s—it honors surrealist painter Renee Magritte (of apple/bowler hat, “c’est ne pas une pipe” and raining men fame)’s 110th birthday with the above version of the search engine’s logo. Here’s a small collection of some of these exciting headings.