The news refers to two Google logos, one being the logo from the Android operating system and the other one, the usual Google logo, which is sometimes considered as a Doodle, if something important happens in the world in a special day. These situations are visible for certain countries and rarely, they are visible for all the Google users. For example, if we are talking about the World Cup, everybody saw a football next to the Google logo these days, but not everyone saw the picture of Tolstoi, when he was commemorated.
Let’s get to the subject. “Gauntlet: The Third Encounter” is a game in 90 years that functioned on the Atari Lynx console. However, according to Engadget, the game seems to have been the inspiration for the creators of the Google logo for Android operating system.
Thus, through characters such as “Nerd”, “Punkrocker” or “Pirate” that the players could choose, there is also an “Android”, which look like the Google logo for Android very much. It remains to be seen what statements will have Google regarding the similarities.
Google marked the 25th aniversary through a very important fact, the discovery of buckyball, thus the giant changed the logo on the homepage. This time Google has done for buckyball an animated logo, which represents a spherical shape which can be rotated using the mouse.
According to the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, the buckyball means a class of compounds of carbon atoms that are present per whole of a structure with either forms which are spherical and geodesic dome type (C60, C540) or cylindrical forms “type cage”.
This class of substances is considered, along with amorphous carbon, graphite and diamond, a distinct allotropic form of carbon. In terms of chemical links between carbon atoms constituents, the buckyballs are related to graphite.
Their name comes from the name of Richard Buckminster Fuller.
Usually, the changed Google logos represent that the search engine marks a special moment and they are static, most of the time. In addition to buckyballs, Google had a logo animation when it marked 30 years since the launch of the game Pac Man.
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