"through Austria, except Salzburg. The rolling stock was blue for a long time, reflecting the logo colour, but red is used uniformly for nearly all local traffic today. In 2004, the Salzburg S-Bahn went into service as the first Euroregion S-Bahn, crossing the border to the neighbouring towns of Freilassing and Berchtesgaden in Bavaria. The network is served by three corporations: the Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB)(S2 and S3), the Salzburger Lokalbahn (SLB)(S1 and S11) and the Berchtesgadener Land Bahn (BLB)(S4). The Salzburg S-Bahn logo is a white S on a light blue circle. In the S-Bahn network in Styria, built"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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, 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"
"a letter ""G"" was introduced. This was to be the corporate logo for the Granada Group as a whole (also seen as the logo for Granada's TV rentals firm), so it was introduced to their ITV franchise as a matter of course rather than the ITV franchise choosing to adopt the new branding. This logo was originally white on a grey background (although occasionally seen as black on a white background) but after the introduction of colour, grey was replaced with blue (after a short period of using white symbol/yellow lettering/purple background), with the GRANADA name in white and the"
"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"
"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"
"a gray title, as opposed to other color-coded Google products, such as Google News and Google Maps. In July 2011, Google announced that it was discontinuing Google Labs. Many of the experiments have been discontinued although a few have moved to the main search pages. <nowiki>http://GoogleLabs.com</nowiki> now returns a DNS look-up failure. Google still has many links to its defunct ""labs"" tools in Google blogs that are readily accessible through a Google search. Google Labs Google Labs was a page created by Google to demonstrate and test new projects. Google described Google Labs as ""a playground where our more adventurous"
"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 Images Google Images is a search service owned by Google that allows users to search the Web for image content. It was introduced on July 12, 2001 due to a demand for pictures of Jennifer Lopez's green Versace dress that the regular Google search couldn't handle. In 2011, reverse image search functionality was added to it. When searching for an image, a thumbnail of each matching image is displayed. When the user clicks on a thumbnail, the image is displayed in a larger size, and users may visit the page on which the image is used. In 2000, Google"
"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"
"September 2, 2014. Eric Schmidt, then Google's executive chairman said, ""we never set out to create a traditional 'enterprise' business—we wanted to create a new way of doing work (...) so the time has come for our name to catch up with our ambition"". Google announced that Google Apps would be rebranded as G Suite on September 29, 2016. Then, on October 25, 2016, Google launched the first hardware product for G Suite, the Jamboard; a 55-inch digital whiteboard connected to the cloud. G Suite comprises Gmail, Hangouts, Calendar, and Google+ for communication; Drive for storage; Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms,"
"used by the Google Fonts community. Webmasters within Germany have received warning letters from lawyers claiming that loading Google Fonts directly from Google servers was not GDPR compliant. Google Fonts Google Fonts (previously called Google Web Fonts) is a library of 900 libre licensed fonts, an interactive web directory for browsing the library, and APIs for conveniently using the fonts via CSS and Android. The directory was launched in 2010 and revamped in 2011 and 2016. Most of the fonts are released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, while some are released under the Apache License; both are libre"
"the most visited website in the world. Several other Google services also figure in the top 100 most visited websites, including YouTube and Blogger. Google is the most valuable brand in the world but has received significant criticism involving issues such as privacy concerns, tax avoidance, antitrust, censorship, and search neutrality. Google's mission statement is ""to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful"", and its unofficial slogan was ""Don't be evil"". In October 2015, the motto was replaced in the Alphabet corporate code of conduct by the phrase """"Do the right thing"""", while the original one"
"Blob emoji Google's blob emoji were a feature of its Android mobile operating system between 2013 and 2017. Google introduced the blobs as part of its Android KitKat mobile operating system in 2013. The next year, Google expanded the blob style to include the emojis that normally depict humans. As an example, instead of a flamenco dancer in Apple emoji style and its derivates, Google's blob style showed a less glamorous blob with a rose in its teeth. In 2016, Google redesigned the blobs into a gumdrop-shape. As Unicode, the group that establishes emoji standards, introduced skin tone and gender"
"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"
"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"
"fabric shells in ""Mango"", ""Marine"", and ""Violet"" color finishes, and metallic shells in ""Carbon"", ""Copper"", and ""Snow"" finishes. Google unveiled Google Home Mini during a hardware-focused event on October 4, 2017, which was released on October 19, 2017. It is a variant of Google Home with the same overall functionality, but in a smaller pebble-like form factor around 4 inches (10 cm) in diameter, with a fabric top that its white-colored status lights shine through. It has a mute switch rather than a mute button, and uses a micro USB connection for power. It is available in ""Chalk"", ""Charcoal"", ""Coral"","
"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"
"options to emojis, Google's emojis progressively appeared more as humans and less as yellow, amorphous blobs. Google retired the blobs in 2017 with the release of Android Oreo in favor of circular emojis similar in style to that of other platforms. Consistent cross-platform emoji interpretation was among the redesign's primary aims. The redesign, which had been in development for about a year, mimicked an Apple effort to include more detail in the emoji glyph and offer yellow skin tone as the default. The blob emoji were a divisive feature between 2013 and 2017. Proponents praised their novel interpretation of emoji"
"Google Search. Roboto Bold is the default font in Unreal Engine 4. It has been announced that the font will be the default font in Kodi, a free and open-source media player. Roboto is used on LCD countdown clocks implemented in 2017 on B Division lines of the New York City Subway. Information on European versions of Nintendo Switch packaging, including physical releases of games, is set in Roboto Condensed. Roboto Slab is a slab serif font based on Roboto. It was introduced in March 2013, as the default font in Google's note-taking service Google Keep. It is available in"
"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"
"zipzoomfly.com, but it now displays an HTTP 404 error. The original mascot of Googlegear was a smiling bean-shaped cartoon character as the first letter ""O"" in the name. Named GoogleGuy, the mascot was shown giving a thumbs-up sign with one of his two floating hands. The U.S. trademark filing describes GoogleGuy as an edible nut without a shell. Nevertheless, the website claimed that GoogleGuy was neither a bean nor a pancake, but a numeral ""zero"" from the virtual googol of products they carried. The mascot still appears in the logo for ZipZoomfly. Several customers have accused ZipZoomFly of committing ""rebate"
"design"". Only one minor revision was made after the original version was unveiled: while the ""G"" and ""O"" used to touch each other, a gap now exists with a bolder white ""T"" to enhance them. The primary corporate colour was known as ""GO Green"", matched the green on Ontario Highway signs, and was used on all vehicles, signage, and printed material. In 2013, GO introduced a two-tone colour scheme that changed the primary colour to a darker green, and added a second lighter apple green. The changes were made to better harmonize with the branding of Metrolinx and its other"