A bunch of bloggers have been commenting today on the ‘misspelling’ in Google’s Valentine’s day logo this morning, which seems to say ‘Googe’ rather than ‘Google’.

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decided to do a quick bit of research into ‘Googe’ to determine whether this was a mistake or not, and they discovered the following:

  1. ‘Googe’ may refer to the 16th century poet Barnabe Goorge who is mostly famous for the line, ‘I did but see her passing by, and yet I love her till I die’ which is obviously in the romantic, Valentine’s spirit
  2. ‘Googe’ could be a reference to bassist Debbie Googe of My Bloody Valentine, an Irish-British rock band from the early 1990’s.
  3. Lastly, it could be referring to the word ‘Googe’ as used in the Urban Dictionary. Warning: possibly NSFW, and just nasty anways…

So, hopefully that sheds some light onto the mystery. Once again, hat tip to The Puget News!

3 Comments so far

  1. dudu @ February 16th, 2007

    I’m sure that they we’re thinking in Googe of My Bloody Valentine.

  2. Brian Vuyk @ February 16th, 2007

    lol - perhaps that one was a touch far-fetched… But it is somewhat possible…

  3. Sasha @ February 22nd, 2007

    It was never Googe, the letter L was there!

    Cheers

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