…from the Google home page. (I always get there from the search bar in my browser.)
So yesterday, I visited there for some forgotten reason and saw this unusual version of their logo. I couldn’t figure it out.
Any ideas? (Update: See comments for the answer… thanks, John!)
It’s an electromagnet (like I used to make as a kid) that is making a compass point East instead of North. Why on google? Well, they helped out by making the logo a hyperlink to a search and…
Hans Christian Ørsted (14 August 1777 – 9 March 1851) was a Danish physicist and chemist who is best known for discovering that electric currents can induce magnetic fields.
and no, though I am certainly a geek, I didn’t know who he was. john
I love the way google does clever little things like that.
I always ‘google’ – it is my homepage.
Thanks for the newsletter. Your sticker/stamp looked great.
I’d love to recieve it via email:
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