In honor of an event that will only happen once this century, Google has ceremoniously altered their logo in honor of 9/9/09 at 9:09 AM, the only time in 100 years where the time and the date will feature the exact same amount of 9s in the same placement.
Google didn’t take the ornate path this time, opting for a simple boxed digit design added to the bottom of their everyday logo. But at least this is one mystery that is solved without days of speculation, much like when Google added a UFO to their logo only days ago, launching speculation for Google’s reasoning.
Yeah, so what was up with the UFO logo? I never did get that one figured out.
Check out this article, Mike. It’s a complex sequence of events, but it was figured out that it had something to do with Zero Wing. http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/technology/shanerichmond/100003402/google-ufo-logo-mystery-solved/