Please! I'm going nuts! WHY does Google have little pieces of cake on

[Radio_Lady]

their search web site today? With little red maraschino cherries on top?

Is it for Halloween? The holiday season? Is this National Bake A Cake Week? Or National See Your Dentist Day?

Why?

[NMMNG]

1. I was wondering the same darn thing

if anyone knows please tell us.

[tuvor]

2. Rest your pointer over the graphic.

It'll tell you.

If you're not set up to do that, right click and select Properties.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

3. It's an autumn thing. They'll also change it each holiday approaches.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

4. Google's 7th birthday...

Thus say the pieces of cake when I run the mouse over them.

Happy googleday!

[Crazy Guggenheim]

5. That's it.

[Omphaloskepsis]

6. Google had a b-day.

edit - I'm a little slow.

[Radio_Lady]

7. Hap-py Birth-day to YOU! Hap-py Birth-day to YOU!

You looks like a monkey
And you act like one, too!

OH SORRY WRONG LYRICS!

I want some birthday cake -- not graphics -- REAL CAKE!

This is an insult :sarcasm:

Thanks for the information. I'm going to my refrigerator to sulk right now...

[Radio_Lady]

8. Looks like they fudged the date a little bit -- Sept. 7, 1998 -- maybe

they didn't want to interfere with the hurricane coverage.

From:
http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/2160731

"Google, Inc. was established on September 7, 1998. Following traditional silicon valley protocol, the founders hired Craig Silverstein, now Director of Technology, as their first employee, and set up shop in a friend's garage. Google at the time was still in alpha, with an index of just 25 million pages, but it was handling 10,000 search queries every day.

The company grew quickly, and on June 7, 1999, the company announced that it had secured a round of funding that included $25 million from Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Buyers.

The rest, as they say, is history. The official history page has all these details, and more..."

See:

http://www.google.com/corporate/history.html