谷歌慶祝11歲生日 圖標Google成Googlle
Google has released a special misspelt version of its logo – apparently to mark 11 years since the company was founded.
The search giant's name appeared with an extra letter "l" on its home page on Sunday, a change that did not escape the notice of the internet.
Within hours of the new logo going live, "why is google spelt wrong" and "why does google have two ls" were two of the most popular search phrases on the web.
Google was formed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin 11 years ago this month – in September 1998 – and the company has in the past altered its doodle to celebrate its own anniversaries.
For its tenth birthday last year the first letter "o" in Google was replaced with a cupcake.
Google has always used its logo as a way of commemorating important historical dates and major world events, but has become increasingly playful in recent weeks.
Last week Google put paid to speculation about the meaning of three "unexplained phenomena" doodles by admitting that they were designed to commemorate the 143rd birthday of the novelist HG Wells.
The first mysterious Google doodle appeared on September 5, and showed a flying saucer hovering over the Google logo and "abducting" the letter "O".
On September 15, a second Google doodle appeared, showing a flying saucer hovering over a field. The Google logo was spelt out as series of crop circles, and clicking on the doodle produced a list of web pages related to crop circles.
The third doodle, on September 21, featured a scene from Wells's book War of the Worlds.
昨日，谷歌將其首頁圖標更換成了一個特意拼錯的版本，以慶祝其11歲生日。
週日，搜索巨頭Google在其首頁的名字（Google）中多了一個字母“l”，這一變化沒有逃過網民們的眼睛。
在新標識發佈後幾小時內，“Google為什麼拼錯了”和“Google為什麼有兩個“l”（Googlle）”成為網上最熱門的兩個搜索詞條。
谷歌公司由拉里•佩琦和瑟金•布林於11年前的九月創立，也就是1998年9月。該公司過去也曾用改動圖標的方式來慶祝其生日。
在去年穀歌10歲生日當天，Google圖標中的第一個字母“o”被換成了一個杯形蛋糕。
谷歌經常用它的圖標來紀念歷史上的重要日子和世界各地的大事，而近幾周來，Google圖標的花樣越來越多。
上週，谷歌結束了幾周以來人們對其此前發佈的三個“神祕圖標”的種種猜測，坦稱這三個圖標是為了紀念小説家赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯143歲誕辰而設計的。
第一個神祕徽標出現於9月5日，呈現出一個飛碟盤旋在谷歌圖標的上方，並“劫持”了字母“O”。
9月15日，神祕圖標第二次出現，此次呈現的是一個飛碟盤旋在田野上空，Google圖標的幾個字母則連成了一系列的麥田怪圈。而點擊圖標就會出現和麥田圈有關的網頁列表。
9月21日出現的第三個神祕圖標是威爾斯所著的小説《世界大戰》中的一個場景。
Vocabulary:
doodle:塗鴉
put paid to: to consider something closed or completed <英口> 了結，結束（They have put paid to their quarrel. 他們已結束爭吵。）
s: 全名Herbert George Wells，赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯（1866－1946），英國著名小説家，尤以科幻小説創作聞名於世。1895年出版《時間機器》一舉成名，隨後又發表了《莫洛博士島》、《隱身人》、《星際戰爭》等多部科幻小説。他還是一位社會改革家和預言家，撰寫了《世界史綱》等大量關注現實、思考未來的作品。
crop circle: a pattern made up of ring shapes formed by the unexplained flattening of cereals growing in a field 麥田圈
