Google Earth Day Logo Features a Hidden Triforce
This is kinda neat. Like every holiday/event, Google likes to have a little fun with their logo when you visit the search engine. Earth Day is no exception. Whoever created this year’s Earth Day Logo, must love The Legend of Zelda series. Because he or she, decided to sneak the Triforce from the game, and stuck it inside the picture. Check it out up top.
April 22nd, 2009 at 5:20 pm
-hums The Legend of Zelda-
April 22nd, 2009 at 5:26 pm
wow!! thats a great find lol i love zelda,i cant believe i didnt catch it but ive never really thought of google hiding images but i ve been on google all day :\
April 22nd, 2009 at 7:07 pm
Ummm… not sure that’s intentional.
April 23rd, 2009 at 3:58 am
Of course its intentional. They spend months creating this, they know exactly whats going in and whats going on, they go over the whole picture with a fine tooth comb to make sure that there’s nothing bad, its the same when creating box art for computer games.
April 23rd, 2009 at 2:42 pm
Oh god, its the water temple. NOT THE WATER TEMPLE!!
April 24th, 2009 at 9:27 pm
They go over it with a fine tooth comb? Not always. Google “Okami cover” and you’ll see how carefully box art is scrutanized.
April 24th, 2009 at 9:44 pm
LMMFAO @ #4.
I wholeheartedly agree… I hated that damn level.
April 24th, 2009 at 11:34 pm
Looks more like the AOL logo.
April 25th, 2009 at 12:17 am
Fine-toothed comb, my ass. Old Super Mario Galaxy cover, look where the stars are.
April 25th, 2009 at 3:08 am
UH…. that is NOT the tri-force logo
look
http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/7061/7575878400×4004002555.jpg
that’s not what the triforce looks like. that guy was right, looks more like the AOL logo but i’m sure it’s some editing mistake.
April 25th, 2009 at 3:37 am
Actually it probably has more to do with showing that google arnt newfags and they can triforce….
April 25th, 2009 at 6:30 am
What’s with the galaxy cover? I don’t get it…
April 25th, 2009 at 7:08 am
Cat: http://www.joystiq.com/2007/09/18/u-r-mr-gay-message-discovered-in-super-mario-galaxy-box-art/
April 25th, 2009 at 7:40 am
I would guess it was intentional, as it’s probably too big of a coincidence that a perfectly-formed triforce would appear by accident…
April 25th, 2009 at 8:09 am
@ #11, what about the gradual evolution of triangle-like organisms and their subsequent collective action? It could just be a small colony of evolved proto-triangles…
April 25th, 2009 at 8:12 am
@mee, you really think they spend months working on these little logos used for one day? You don’t think their designers are busy with other assignments? No they probably spend a week from project start to finish with thumbnails, comps, and then final rendering followed by a quick once over by the head designer….Good to go!
April 25th, 2009 at 9:26 am
Dont want to spoil you geeky dreams but the triforce is not just from Zelda, other toy’s games ect have featured it as well, most notably Space Lego!!! The old Blacktron sets to be precise. Its also a neo pagan symbol for the three fold law, ‘what ever you do will return unto you three times’. As this was the google logo for earth day I’m betting that’s why it’s been included, given that neo pagans view the earth as their deity and everything.
April 25th, 2009 at 10:01 am
Dumbass. Ross, your being too nice, this person is retarded if he thinks that Zelda used the triforce first. The bible being one huge example.
April 25th, 2009 at 3:44 pm
talkin bout the triforce, is dere gonna be other zelda game or is the series over?
April 25th, 2009 at 4:05 pm
LOL, it’s definately because Google wants to show that they can triforce and aren’t newfags. Although it has nothing to do with earth day, it has everything to do with Google subculture! I wonder if any other Google logos have subtle 4chan references…
April 25th, 2009 at 4:40 pm
Um…I hate to break it to you, but that is a school of fish.
April 25th, 2009 at 5:49 pm
Wherever this logo was from, it’s not a sure thing that it was “Google’s” idea. they hold contests for these things in some cases (Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Doodle designed by Doodle 4 Google Ireland winner Evan O’Sullivan Glynn – March 17, 2009), in other’s they have specific people from other companies do them (Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss! Courtesy of Dr. Seuss Enterprises – March 2, 2009). It’s possible that inhouse staff came up with this one, but that’s not a forgone conclusion. And if it wasn’t google that did this one, I doubt they noticed your beloved ‘Triforce’ or whatever you want to call it even if they did give it good ‘look over’.
April 25th, 2009 at 6:23 pm
It’s true…
There’s been other spottings throughout the years:
http://www.google.com/logos/thanksgiving08.gif
(Bottom left corner of first ‘O’)
http://www.google.com/logos/halloween08.gif
(Below the knife handle)
When Google employees posed for the Street View photo, one was dressed as Link:
http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-08-05-n63.html
http://blogoscoped.com/files/street-view-lineup/zelda.jpg
IMHO I would’ve gone as a Royal Guard…
April 25th, 2009 at 7:14 pm
It was a Female you made this logo
April 25th, 2009 at 10:44 pm
If you have a macbook (hurrah Apple!) you can zoom in (control + two fingers on trackpad) and clearly see that it is the triforce, no questions asked.
April 25th, 2009 at 11:55 pm
If I had to guess I would say its the designers logo/signature/trademark. Especially after seeing post #23’s response.
April 26th, 2009 at 9:05 am
I agree with #26/Jake. I think this is an artist signature. Only a cosplaying graphic designing Zelda playing freak (akin to my heart) would come up with a signature this annoying and then pose for the crime.
And actually, I also agree with #24. I think it’s a she. The picture isn’t the best of quality. Thanks Street View… but I’m sure we can comb the cosplay groups for the cosplayer with that costume/shield.
I say we go to 4chan and lynch this mofo @ the next game-con. ;-p
April 26th, 2009 at 7:05 pm
you can zoom with vista as well…
crtl +
-cough.-
April 27th, 2009 at 6:36 pm
Left + Up + Right, Left + Up + Right. . .
May 3rd, 2009 at 8:54 am
uh no it just means that google arent newfags wow…
May 26th, 2009 at 4:39 pm
thats the pyramid, same one on the dollar bill. it’s illuminati owned. they like to their logos in everything. if you see a pyramid with an eye in the middle, its them.
May 26th, 2009 at 9:48 pm
shopped
July 1st, 2009 at 5:37 pm
simpsons did it!
and btw: its the triforce but not entirely. not a friggin pyramid. newfags
July 12th, 2009 at 9:44 pm
hmmm it probably has more to do with the fact that whoever grabbed this image has photoshopped it in.
August 14th, 2009 at 1:11 am
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