Twitter and Facebook flooded with alien theories about Google UFO logo

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Twitter, Facebook and the worldwide blogosphere have been flooded with alien conspiracy theories about the new Google UFO logo.
 

Published: 1:08PM BST 05 Sep 2009


Google UFO logo celebrates fascination with unexplained phenomena

The logo, showing a classic saucer-shaped spacecraft shining a light down on the search-engine's regular logo, has been the subject of much speculation.

The world's internet voices want to now whether the all-powerful web giant is trying to tell us something.
 
Google regularly changes its logo to mark important event such as the recent 40th anniversary of the moon landings.

But nobody can work out why Google has chosen this date to put a UFO logo on the world's most visited web page.

"Does anybody know what's going on?" asks one.

"Aliens landed on Earth this day last year," offers another blogger by way of explanation.

Some think Google's global dominance may extend beyond this planet.

"If Google says the aliens are coming, I'm getting out of here," says one US blogger.

One of the things bothering the online community is that early on Saturday morning the new logo could be seen in some places, but not others.

"Am I the one that is going crazy?" asks a blogger in Arizona who can't see the logo.

If you click on the alien logo you are given the results for "unexplained phenomena".

In Google's top tend most searched terms "unexplained phenomena" merits two entries.

It is unclear whether Google is responding to popular demand or dictating what the public should be interested in.

Can you explain Google's UFO logo?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/go...-logo.html

[Rod]

Yeah i saw this logo on the australian google, site, and it had me baffled! was wondering why the f* they'd do this...  Possibly to create exactly what it had done, speculation, as i've always said, any publicity is good publicity!

Possibly future advertising of Google Earth or 'sky' i think its called... intersting none the less

[Richard]

I found the answer.


Google UFO Doodle Explained

Written by Nancy Atkinson
September 7th, 2009

The intertoobs have been abuzz with Google's seemingly unexplained latest doodle: A UFO beaming up one of Google's "O"s. The plot thickened when Google's Twitter account Tweeted the following: "1.12.12 25.15.21.18 15 1.18.5 2.5.12.15.14.7 20.15 21.19." What did it all mean? Was Google giving credence to UFO believers? Or referring to the wife of Japan's new Prime Minister for her belief that she traveled to Venus on a UFO? Or perhaps honoring Voyager 1's launch (Sept. 5, 1977) or space shuttle Discovery's first landing on Sept. 5, 1984? None of the above, it turns out.

Google was paying homage to the 20th anniversary of 1980s Japanese video game, Zero Wing. According to CNET, apparently a villan from the game named Cats makes this somewhat famous declaration at the beginning of Zero Wing: "How are you gentlemen. All your base are belong to us."

When you take all the numbers in the Google tweet and turn them into the corresponding letters of the alphabet, you get: "All your O are belong to us."

The world can rest now. Google's search page is now back to normal. And the Google techies are back to playing video games.

http://www.universetoday.com/2009/09/07/...explained/

[Rod]

Yippeee!!! nice find richard :D