"Green Is the Colour ""Green Is the Colour"" is a track on Pink Floyd's 1969 ""More"". It was composed and written by Roger Waters and sung by David Gilmour. A tin whistle is heard in the song, played by drummer Nick Mason's then-wife Lindy. A live version of the song was released as the third single to promote ""The Early Years 1965–1972"" box set in October 2016. Live arrangements of the song were performed as a full electric band piece and at a slower tempo. Richard Wright built a calm sheen of warbling organ sound throughout, which created a more"
"the L, which brought back the idea that Google doesn't follow the rules."" In 2010, the Google logo received its first major overhaul since May 31, 1999. The new logo was first previewed on November 8, 2009, and was officially launched on May 6, 2010. It utilises an identical typeface to the previous logo, but the ""o"" is distinctly more orange-colored in place of the previously more yellowish ""o"", as well as a much more subtle shadow rendered in a different shading style. On September 19, 2013, Google introduced a new ""flat"" (two-dimensional) logo with a slightly altered color palette."
"On May 24, 2014, the Google logo was updated, the second 'g' moved right one pixel and the 'l' moved down and right one pixel. The old 2010 Google logo remained in use on some pages, such as the Google Doodles page, for a period of time. On September 1, 2015, Google introduced a controversial ""new logo and identity family"" designed to work across multiple devices. The notable difference in the logo is the change in the typeface. The colors remained the same; however, Google switched to a modern, geometric sans-serif typeface called Product Sans, created in-house at Google (and"
"design was apparently first used on the Google Poland homepage following the air disaster that killed, among others, Polish President Lech Kaczyński in April 2010. A few days later, the logo was used in China and Hong Kong to pay respects to the victims of the Qinghai earthquake. On September 8, 2010, the doodle once again changed to a greyed-out Google logo that lit up with the standard Google colors as the first 6 letters of a search query were entered. It goes by the name of the Keystroke Logo. This logo was again used on December 5th of 2018"
"on holidays, birthdays of famous people, and major events, such as the Olympics. These special logos, some designed by Dennis Hwang, have become known as Google Doodles. In 1998, Larry Page created a computerized version of the Google letters using the free graphics program GIMP. The typeface was changed and an exclamation mark was added mimicking the Yahoo! logo. ""There were a lot of different color iterations"", says Ruth Kedar, the graphic designer who developed the now-famous logo. ""We ended up with the primary colors, but instead of having the pattern go in order, we put a secondary color on"
"on the Google home search page ""Google"" logo to mark L. L. Zamenhof's 150th birthday. The flagstaff was the ""L"" of the search-company name. One hypothesis of the red star as a symbol of socialism relates to an alleged encounter between Leon Trotsky and Nikolai Krylenko. Krylenko, an Esperantist, was wearing a green-star lapel badge; Trotsky enquired as to its meaning and received an explanation that each arm of the star represented one of the five traditional continents. On hearing this, he specified that a similar red star should be worn by soldiers of the Red Army. Esperanto symbols Since"
"Google logo The Google logo appears in numerous settings to identify the search engine company. Google has relied on several logos since its renaming (see History of Google), with the first logo created by Sergey Brin using GIMP. A revised logo debuted on September 1, 2015. The previous logo, with slight modifications between 1999 and 2013, was designed by Ruth Kedar; the wordmark was based on the Catull, an old style serif typeface designed by for the Berthold Type Foundry in 1982. The company also includes various modifications or humorous features, such as cartoon modifications of their logo for use"
"also used for the Alphabet logo). The first Google Doodle was in honor of the Burning Man Festival of 1998. The doodle was designed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin to notify users of their absence in case the servers crashed. Subsequent Google Doodles were designed by an outside contractor, until Larry and Sergey asked then-intern Dennis Hwang to design a logo for Bastille Day in 2000. Hwang has been designing the Google Doodles ever since. A colorless version of the logo is particularly used on a local homepage in recognition of a major tragedy, often for several days. The"
"perfect circles. These visual corrections were made for legibility. The present Google logo is based on Product Sans. Slight modifications do exist in the logo compared to the typeface: the most noticeable is the slanted 'e'. The differences between the logo and Product Sans allows for distinction between the Google logotype and product name. Product Sans is mainly used in the text of Google's numerous services' logotypes such as Maps, Drive, News, Earth, etc. The font is also used on the ""Made by Google"" website, which showcases Google products, and in some versions of Android. Product Sans Product Sans is"
"Ruth Kedar Ruth Kedar (; born 27 January 1955) is an artist and designer, best known for designing the Google logo that was displayed from May 31, 1999 to September 1, 2015. Larry Page and Sergey Brin were looking at designers to design their logo and website and Kedar was asked to present them with some preliminary design ideas. They liked her approach and design style and she was hired to design both. The design was accepted due to its playful design, the customized Catull typeface and unique visual expression. Born in Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil, she moved to Israel"
"Product Sans Product Sans is a geometric sans-serif typeface created by Google for branding purposes. It replaced the old Google logo on September 1, 2015. As Google's branding was becoming more apparent on a multitude of devices, Google sought to adapt its design so that its logo could be portrayed in constrained spaces and remain consistent for its users across platforms. A size-optimized version of Product Sans, called Google Sans, is also used as the display font of Google's customized and adapted version of Material Design, Google Material Theme. The design team wanted to retain the simple and approachable styles"
"Google Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. Google was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University in California. Together they own about 14 percent of its shares and control 56 percent of the stockholder voting power through supervoting stock. They incorporated Google as a privately held company on September 4, 1998. An initial public offering (IPO) took place on August 19, 2004, and Google moved to its headquarters in"
"Google, other subsidiaries being Calico, Chronicle, Dandelion, DeepMind, GV, CapitalG, X, Google Fiber, Jigsaw, Sidewalk Labs, Verily and Waymo. , their equity are held by a subsidiary known as XXVI Holdings, Inc. (referring to the Roman numeral of 26, the number of letters in the alphabet), so that they can be valued and legally separated from Google. At the same time, it was announced that Google will be reorganized as a limited liability company, Google LLC. While many companies or divisions formerly a part of Google became subsidiaries of Alphabet, Google remains the umbrella company for Alphabet's Internet-related businesses. These"
"Doodle4Google Doodle 4 Google, also stylized Doodle4Google, is an annual competition in various countries, held by Google, to have children create a logo that will be featured on the local Google homepage as a doodle. Google features logos on their homepage, usually for public holidays. In the past, events such as the beginning of spring, the anniversary of understanding DNA, or the invention of the laser have been celebrated. The original Google ""doodle"" was in 1998 when Sergey Brin and Lawrence E. Page were attending the Burning Man Festival, to show that they were out of the office and unable"
"their names since leaving Google and becoming part of the new parent company—Google Ventures becoming GV, Google Life Sciences becoming Verily and Google X becoming just X. Following the restructuring, Page became CEO of Alphabet and Sundar Pichai took his position as CEO of Google. Shares of Google's stock have been converted into Alphabet stock, which trade under Google's former ticker symbols of ""GOOG"" and ""GOOGL"". , Alphabet is ranked #22 on the Fortune 500 rankings of the largest United States corporations by total revenue. The establishment of Alphabet was prompted by a desire to make the core Google Internet"
"with an animated version of its logo (a ""Google Doodle""), although it has used other dates for its official birthday. The reason for the choice of September 27 remains unclear, and a dispute with rival search engine Yahoo! Search in 2005 has been suggested as the cause. The Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI) was launched in October 2013; Google is part of the coalition of public and private organizations that also includes Facebook, Intel, and Microsoft. Led by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the A4AI seeks to make Internet access more affordable so that access is broadened in the developing world, where"
"a new look to the Google home page in order to boost the use of the Google+ social tools. One of the major changes was replacing the classic navigation bar with a black one. Google's digital creative director Chris Wiggins explains: ""We're working on a project to bring you a new and improved Google experience, and over the next few months, you'll continue to see more updates to our look and feel."" The new navigation bar has been negatively received by a vocal minority. In November 2013, Google started testing yellow labels for advertisements displayed in search results, to improve"
"halves, black sleeves with gold and red accents, black shorts and black socks. The Galaxy have had two logos to date. The original brand was gold, teal and black, and featured the Galaxy wordmark superimposed over a golden swirl, with a stylized black outline. The logo was changed in 2007, again to coincide with David Beckham's arrival, and now features a blue shield with a gold border, the LA Galaxy team name, and a quasar at the top of the crest. The quasar featured prominently on the LA Galaxy's shield was originally featured on the 1957 Seal of Los Angeles"
"design the Google logo. Kedar is one of the founders of Art.Net. She has been awarded several design awards and her artwork has been shown internationally. Ruth Kedar Ruth Kedar (; born 27 January 1955) is an artist and designer, best known for designing the Google logo that was displayed from May 31, 1999 to September 1, 2015. Larry Page and Sergey Brin were looking at designers to design their logo and website and Kedar was asked to present them with some preliminary design ideas. They liked her approach and design style and she was hired to design both. The"
"""L"") looks much like ""google.com"" in some fonts. PayPal was a target of a phishing scam exploiting this, using the domain PayPaI.com. In certain narrow-spaced fonts such as Tahoma (the default in the address bar in Windows XP), placing a c in front of a j, l or i will produce homoglyphs such as cl cj ci (d g a). In multilingual computer systems, different logical characters may have identical appearances. For example, Unicode character U+0430, Cyrillic small letter a (""а""), can look identical to Unicode character U+0061, Latin small letter a, (""a"") which is the lowercase ""a"" used in"
"of millions of people of all backgrounds for centuries"". Continuing with the gladiators theme, the team colors were announced as purple and white, inspired from the royal colors of the Roman emperors that the gladiators fought for. In addition, the written logo was revealed with a contrasting color used intentionally for the connected letters L and A in ""Gladiators"", to highlight the Los Angeles location of the team. As an addition to their branding, the Gladiators began using the slogan ""Shields up"" on social media, possibly a reference to the frequent use of shields by the ancient Roman gladiators as"
"colored status LEDs on the top for visual representation of its status, and the cover over the base is modular, with different color options offered through Google Store intended for the device to blend into the environment. In October 2017, Google announced two additions to the product lineup, the Google Home Mini and the Google Home Max. In March 2016, reports were published about Google developing a wireless speaker to compete against the Amazon Echo. Google Home was officially announced at the company's developer conference in May 2016, where it was also announced that Home would run Google Assistant (a"
"""L"" using the standardized logo template introduced at Super Bowl XLV. He noted that ""L"" was harder to design around as it is asymmetrical unlike other Roman numerals, and also showed concerns that use of the letter ""L"" could be interpreted as the ""loser"" hand gesture. 73 mockups, incorporating either ""L"" or ""50"", were designed before the final design was chosen, which featured large numerals colored in gold behind the Vince Lombardi Trophy, instead of underneath and in silver as in the standard logo. Tying into the game's ""golden anniversary,"" various gold-themed promotions and initiatives were held throughout the 2015"
"Google in 2007. The piece presents the class structure of Google shown through Wilson’s encounter with the yellow-badge workers, a top-secret group of workers that scan books for Google Book Search. The artist’s attempts to film and interview the yellow-badge workers were stopped quickly by Google security and resulted in the termination of his employment at Google. The video alludes to Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory by Auguste and Louis Lumière and it went viral when it circulated on the Internet in 2011. This project is a photographic series made of Google Books images in which errors in the scanning"
"Alphabet. On September 1, 2017, Google Inc. announced its plans of restructuring as a limited liability company, Google LLC, as a wholly owned subsidiary of XXVI Holdings Inc., which is formed as a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. to hold the equity of its other subsidiaries, including Google LLC and other bets. As per its 2017 Annual report, Google generates most of its revenues from advertising. This includes sales of apps, purchases made in-app, digital content products on google and you tube, android and licensing and service fees, including fees received for Google Cloud offerings. 46% of this was from clicks"
"redesign of the pin that changed the black outline of the pin to a dark red for a softer look. Google has used the pin in online and traditional print marketing campaigns for Google Maps. The pin is displayed as part of the icon for the Google Maps mobile application, on a stylized map along with an uppercase letter ""G"" for ""Google."" The pin has been used on promotional objects like beer glasses, stickers, and coffee cup sleeves in various marketing campaigns. Google has also designed and sold T-shirts that display a Google Maps pin along with the words ""I"
"outside the United States, will accommodate 13,000 employees. Google has been designing special, temporary alternate logos to place on their homepage intended to celebrate holidays, events, achievements and people. The first Google Doodle was in honor of the Burning Man Festival of 1998. The doodle was designed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin to notify users of their absence in case the servers crashed. Subsequent Google Doodles were designed by an outside contractor, until Larry and Sergey asked then-intern Dennis Hwang to design a logo for Bastille Day in 2000. From that point onward, Doodles have been organized and created"
"to make it less obvious to casual users. In March 2011, Google introduced a new simplified logo to replace the previous 3D logo that had been used since the project's inception. Google designer Steve Rura explained the company reasoning for the change: ""Since Chrome is all about making your web experience as easy and clutter-free as possible, we refreshed the Chrome icon to better represent these sentiments. A simpler icon embodies the Chrome spirit to make the web quicker, lighter, and easier for all."" In September 2013, Google started making Chrome apps ""For your desktop."" This meant offline access, desktop"
"Lato (typeface) Lato is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Łukasz Dziedzic. It covers all Latin alphabets, along with Cyrillic, Greek, and IPA. The name ""Lato"" is Polish for ""summer"". Dziedzic created the typeface in the summer of 2010 for a Polish bank. When the bank changed its stylistic vision, he shelved the typeface, and released it later that year under the libre SIL Open Font License. After Lato was added to Google Fonts it quickly gained popularity, becoming the third most used web font after Google's own Roboto and Open Sans, with over one billion views per day as"
"187 days (over 6 months). On July 28, 2015, Google signed an agreement with officials of Information and Communication Technology Agency (ICTA) – Sri Lanka, to launch the technology on a mass scale. As a result, by March 2016, Sri Lanka will be the second country in the world to get full coverage of internet using LTE, after Vatican City. In February 2016, Google announced to have achieved a stable laser communication connection between two balloons over a distance of 62 miles (100 km). The connection was stable over many hours and during day and nighttime and reached a data"
"services business ""cleaner and more accountable"" while allowing greater autonomy to group companies that operate in businesses other than Internet services. On August 10, 2015, Google Inc. announced plans to create a new public holding company, Alphabet Inc. Google CEO Larry Page made this announcement in a blog post on Google's official blog. Alphabet would be created to restructure Google by moving subsidiaries from Google to Alphabet, narrowing Google's scope. The company would consist of Google as well as other businesses including X, CapitalG, and GV. Sundar Pichai, Product Chief, became the new CEO of Google, replacing Larry Page. In"
"Irina Blok Irina Blok (born c. 1977) is a graphic designer and an artist. She is best known for creation of the Google Android logo including its green robot icon. Irina Blok has appeared on ABC's Reality Show ""Shark Tank"" as one of the contestants, and her designs were featured in NBC NY, USA today, SF weekly, the French Edition of Elle Magazine and multiple publications around the world. Born in St Petersburg, Russia, Blok moved to the U.S. in 1995, where she studied Graphic Design at San Jose State University. She started her career at Landor Associates as brand"
"describes the font as ""clean and modern, but not overly futuristic – not a science fiction font"". However, typography commentator Stephen Coles of typographica.org called the initial release of Roboto “a Four-headed Frankenfont”, describing it as a “hodgepodge” of different typographic styles which do not work well together. Other type design professionals called out obvious errors in accented glyphs, while John Gruber called the font a ""Helvetica ripoff"". Besides being the default font on the Android operating system, since 2013 it is also the default font of other Google services such as Google+, Google Play, YouTube, Google Maps, and mobile"