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5 facts you should know about the history of Google’s logo

Today’s Google Doodle came as a surprise, bringing a new vibrant, playful and bold logo to represent the Search Giant. The company decided to adopt a new logo for Google, which will be eventually rolled out to other products that operate under the new Parent company ‘Alphabet,’ unveiled last month. It might won’t affect any current services that you’re using, but it changes the very fabric of this company. It is one of the most dramatic and noticeable change ever since the company decided to ditch ‘backrub’. Here are the 5 facts about Google logo history, you should know about.

Creepy BackRub Logo

Google wasn’t launched with a perfect name back in 1996. The company was formerly known as ‘BackRub’ – the web crawler. It even flaunted a creepy logo, featuring a bare back of a hand with less cartoony, simple text written over it. It was rebranded as ‘Google’ a year later.

Original logo designer wanted it to be “Non-Designed”

Once the company was rebranded as ‘Google’ in 1997, Larry Page and Sergey Brin decided their pre-launch logo wasn’t enough to represent the search engine, which was hard to read as well. The Original logo was designed by Ruth Kedar a year later in 1998.

Google started using Doodle

It was August 30, 1998 when Google team decided to use their homepage to support local events or celebrate special occasions. Burning Man Symbol was the first Google doodle in 1998, this doodle was added to inform the visitors that the founders of Google are on a visit to the Burning Man Festival. The ritual has been carried on ever since.

Google dropped Exclamation point

If you were born in 1990’s, chances are very little that you’re not aware of the original logo of Google with an exclamation mark at the end. It was formally meant to be more exciting and fun. ‘Google!’ did sound like it. The exclamation point stayed with the official logo until the company decided to drop it in September 2013.

The new Logo adopts design from Alphabet

Google’s new logo has a tweaked version of Sans-Serif typeface, which is very similar to its parent company Alphabet. Larry Page, the company’s CEO, wrote in a blog post on August 10 that “Google is not a conventional company. We do not intend to become one.” So the new fun logo seems to demonstrate that.

A brief Google logo history:

September 2, 2015
[How to] Remove Google Search History before new privacy Policy rolls in!

March 20, 2015
[How To] Delete Netflix Viewing History from Your Account

As with most things online, the site keeps a virtual record of all of your activity. You may not even be aware of it, but every selection you’ve made is documented. There is a way, however, to purge that record permanently. To delete your Netflix viewing history, however, you must cancel your account and then resubscribe.

Update

Unfortunately, Netflix has disabled these features, and there are no official options to remove or hide the recently watched content on your Netflix account apart from removing your account and creating it again. See this update instead:

Update: 2 really easy way to delete your netflix history or recently watched

Instructions

1. Sign in to Netflix using your username and password.

2. Click on “Your Account & Help” in the upper right-hand corner of the screen. Find the section called “Account Information.” Click on “Cancel Membership.”

3. Read each item carefully and understand that by doing this you will not only be purging your viewing and rental history, but your queue as well. Click the box on the bottom of the page next to the sentence that reads, “I accept and understand the terms of cancellation and want to cancel my account.” Then click “Complete Cancellation.”

Tips

After you have canceled your account, you can resubscribe to Netflix using the same billing information. You can also rebuild your movie queue.

April 22, 2012
[How to] Wipe Google Search activity history from your account
Google’s new Privacy Policy, allows them to collect the information from your account with your legal consent. Your search results lets Google bots determine your interests and serve the contents accordingly, which includes and not limited to all the services provided by Google. Google’s privacy Policy is somewhat controversial and there is less privacy.

It is found that even if you delete the “web history” from your Google account, Google doesn’t stop storing information collected by it’s bots for internal usage and to improve users experience. So no matter what you do, you cannot stop Google from determining who you are, what you like, where do you live, your sexual orientation, religion and other sensitive information about you.

We don’t know whether the steps mentioned below will help you delete all the information collected by google prior to the new Google’s Privacy Policy, but you can have a shot, Just follow the steps:

Instructions:
1. Sign into your Google Account
1. Go to https://www.google.com/history
1. Click on 3 dots on the top-right side of the page to reveal the options > Select “delete options” from the drop down list.
1. In the pop-up window, select radio button next to the “advanced” option > select “All time” when asked to select date, and click on “delete”.
Requirements :
- Internet Connection
- A Google Account
- Ability to follow simple instructions
Note: Disabling Web History in your Google account will not prevent Google from collecting and storing this information and using it for internal purposes. It also does not change the fact that any information collected and stored by Google could be sought by law enforcement.

With Web History enabled, Google will keep these records indefinitely; with it disabled, they will be partially anonymized after 18 months, and certain kinds of uses, including sending you customized search results, will be prevented.
February 23, 2012
How to Delete the Purchase History for the iTunes Store

If you love to download music, your iTunes purchase history can get cluttered very quickly. Rather than sifting through hundreds of media titles that you downloaded days, weeks or even months ago, it is simple to delete entries from the “Purchase History” section without affecting your iTunes library.

Instructions:

1. Open iTunes.

2. Locate the “Store” section in the main menu pane on the left side of your screen and select “Purchased.” Your purchase history will populate in the main window.

3. Click “Edit” at top left of your screen and choose “Select All” in the pull-down menu. This will highlight every entry in your purchase history.

4. Right-click any of the highlighted titles in the main menu and select “Delete.”

Tips & Warnings

Choose any individual title you wish to delete by clicking on it once, then right-clicking the title and selecting “Delete.” You can also hold the “Control” key as you select multiple titles, or the “Shift” key to select consecutive blocks of titles.

If this is your first time deleting from your purchase history, iTunes may send you a pop-up message letting you know that the title is still in your library. This is a good thing. Simply click “OK.”

Things You’ll Need
iTunes 7 or higher

Image: Pixabay

November 30, 2011