What Do Marc Chagall and Google Have in Common?

What Do Marc Chagall and Google Have in Common?–July 7–9:26 AM

Popping into the number one spot on Google Hot Trends is a painter that most people have never heard of, Marc Chegall. Another Google Trends mystery for me to solve. This one was pretty simple.

For those landing on Google’s classic, clean homepage, your normal Google logo was replaced with this image. Like most times Google does this with their logo, you only know it’s Google because, well, you know it’s Google. You’re on Google’s page after all. Otherwise, it’s unreadable.

This is a pretty common thing for Google and they’re impressed enough with themselves to have pages of their past logos that they have used for holidays. Among the most ridiculous (and this was a tough choice) is the logo celebrating the anniversary of the first ascent of Everest.

google everest ascent

That’s a stretch. I’m sorry, but Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay don’t look like Gs. Simple as that. Especially Norgay…I mean…not even close, right?

Maybe a U or a H, but definitely not a G.

But, back to Marc Chegall. The logo on Google’s homepage was inspired by his work is there to celebrate his birthday today, July 7. For those wishing to send him a happy birthday wish, you can probably save yourself a stamp. He died in 1985. Marc Chagall would have been 121 today. I love it when the big media companies do that, so I thought I’d do it. No idea what that bit of information is supposed to do for me, but they give it anyway. Am I supposed to think, “Wow, that’s too bad. I bet if he walked for 20 minutes three days a week and had more fiber, he’d still be alive today. A real shame.”

How’d I figure out that this was Chegall’s work in Google’s logo? My many years of art training of course. <Pause for laughter> In fact, an alt tag gave it away.