Why Does Google Front Page Show a Barcode?

October 7th, 2009

Have you checked out the Google front page today? The Google logo is replaced by a barcode! Is this a new Google doodle? Click on the barcode and it leads you to these results.

google-barcode

Google is celebrating the 57th anniversary of the first patent on the bar code. And any barcode reader will probably read the above code as Google!

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4 Responses to “Why Does Google Front Page Show a Barcode?”

Saurabh Kumar says:

October 8, 2009 at 1:29 pm

nice Google logo in barcode display because 57th anniversary of barcode.

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Yang says:

October 10, 2009 at 6:14 am

I thought my N95 could read that but after a few failures, seemed it couldn’t.

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Mr.Carrot13 says:

October 23, 2009 at 3:07 am

So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. ,

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Search Engine Marketing Minneapolis says:

January 7, 2010 at 10:09 pm

If you take a scanner from any of your local retail buddies who have a scanner you can put it up to the computer next time Google puts the barcode up and then you will see the current value of Google Inc.!

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