Two recent international Google Doodle logos courtesy of Zorgloob:
The first is easy, it’s the Persian New Year: Google’s done the Persian New Year thing before, in 2006: And 2005: The second one, according to the translation, is to celebrate the International Day of the Francophonie: What is the International Day of the Francophonie? No, it’s not a day for French people who are disingenuous, but rather a day to celebrate

I am so sick of the news on this blog being, on average, a week old. Its my fault. I let these tabs build and build and build, and I don’t have time to write because I’m too busy amassing tabs, and when I finally do write something, it’s a week old. Dammit! I am so not doing this anymore. I hate missing news, but it is beyond stupid to have late and irellevant news because you don’t want to miss anything.
And because

Here’s a funny little hack: Someone figured out that a little bit of JavaScript can make the Google logo fly around your web browser. Just visit Google.com and paste this code in your address bar:
javascript:R=0; x1=.1; y1=.05; x2=.25; y2=.24; x3=1.6; y3=.24; x4=300; y4=200; x5=300; y5=200; DI=document.images; DIL=DI.length; function A(){for(i=0; i-DIL; i++){DIS=DI[ i ].style; DIS.position=’absolute’; DIS.left=Math.sin(R*x1+i*x2+x3)*x4+x5; DIS.top=Math.cos(R*y1+i*y2+y3)*y4+y5}R++}setInterval(’A()’,5); void(0);
Watch it in action:

(via Beep Me > Digg)
Also worth mentioning: There’s a Google Doodle today for Valentine’s Day:

As more than one person has asked me today, where’s the “l” in Google? My guess: It’s the stem.
UPDATE: Looks like I was right

Google ran this Doodle logo on January 26th, Australia Day, on Google.com.au:

Via Gary, whose also got a logo Yahoo ran that day.

Google ran this Doodle yesterday in honor of Martin Luther King Day:

I wonder, why isn’t it Martin Luther King Jr. Day? Not marketable enough?

Happy New Year everybody! Lets hope this year is even better than the last (which, unless you got married like I did, isn’t too hard).
Here’s Google’s New Years Doodle:

UPDATE: Gary is catching a whole bunch of logos, mostly various international search logos. I’m shocked that at 1:43 am Eastern, Yahoo and Ask still haven’t put up theirs.
For reference, here are all the previous New Year’s Doodles:
2006:

2005:

2004:

2003:

2002:

2001:

2000:

Here’s a rundown of other search engine’s logos for the holidays:
Yahoo ran a nice Flash logo with falling snow and a skating penguin and gingerbread man. Reload the page to see the animation from the beginning.

Here’s the non-Flash image version:

Check out Resource Shelf for some of Yahoo’s logos from other countries.
Ask ran one of their full screen images, this year of snow and a Christmas tree:

Gary Price has Ask UK’s different front page image, a simpler holiday bow

Ladies and gents, the final Doodle in Google’s Doodle 12 holiday logo lineup. See the whole lineup at this page.
Oh, and Merry Christmas to all (except those who don’t celebrate Christmas, they get a Merry Monday), and to all a good night (except those in other timezones, for whom there may be daylight already)! Have a non-denominational politically-correct good time!

Google has done three more Doodles over the last few days, continuing its Google Doodle 12 series of holiday logos. Here is the entire series so far, with the last one the logo you’ll currently see running on Google.com:

You’ll be able to see the entire series at this page. Looks like tomorrow might be the last one.
This year’s Doodle logo is pretty good, much more traditional than last year’s or the year before’s, and makes a hell of a whole lot more sense

For the second year in a row, Google has added a vertical row of tiny imags next to its AdWords ads on Google search, in order to commemorate the holidays. Run a search on Christmas, Hanukkah, or Kwanzaa, and you’ll get a little treat on the right (Christmas trees for Christmas, white candles for Hanukkah, and green, black and red candles for Kwanzaa)

Google France is running this Doodle today in honor of the birthday of Edward Munch:

(via Zorgloob)

Happy Turkey Day, dear readers! Hopefully, everyone (who isn’t boycotting the holiday) will enjoy a feast tonight with the people they love the most.
Here are today’s search engine logos celebrating this day of thanks… giving:
Google:

Yahoo:

Ask doesn’t go all out, as in the past, but does put a, uh, thing, on their front page:

Philipp has an image showing the different Google Thanksgiving logos over the years

The US government has issued its report derived from all the user search histories it subpoena’d earlier this year. Seth Finkelstein says the findings include: “About 1 percent of the websites in the Google and MSN indexes are sexually explicit. About 6 percent of queries retrieve a sexually explicit website