Winner of the Google Logo Redesign Contest

You can imagine this Terminator-googlebot-technospider would not be the kind of design to be considered for the actual Google homepage, but as the competition was more for fun, thats not an issue.

However, we both thought conceptually the following logo by Niraj Sanghvi was among the most interesting:

Reading Go Ogle, This design combines the search box with the logo, making the Google homepage even simpler than before. (Looking at this creation you can also imagine the Google logo placed to the right of the Google search box as submit button.)

Bilal was the most productive participant, creating not a single but 11 different logo iterations. We thought one of the best takes of his was this one " a pure (highly recognizable) symbol, defeating language barriers in the process of global marketing of a company or product:

Another logo which Adrian Lunsong came up with simply refers to Google as the G. This could be interesting again in markets where the word google may not fit in as easily, like perhaps China (where Google already promotes the g.cn" alternative):

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