Article on Wired -- "How Google Got It's Logo":
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/startups/multimedia/2008/02/gal...
Re:Secret message in source code of Digg
by adrianwaj on Monday November 03, 2008 @11:50AM
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"There were a lot of different color iterations," Kedar says. "We ended up with the primary colors, but instead of having the pattern go in order, we put a secondary color on the L, which brought back the idea that Google doesn't follow the rules."
Nice commenting system on Wired: threaded, voting and cut short for quick expansion - needed at TechCrunch.
-- Anyhow, I ad-block all logos that I would otherwise regularly see.
The Google logo is also partly one: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_explanation_for_the_Go...