Today is author Roald Dahl’s birthday (he was born on September 13, 1916), and Google put up a special celebration logo on their homepage. Wikipedia, quick to update its articles, already references the logo and mentions it showcases items and characters from Roald’s books, including Matilda and James and the Giant Peach. Today in the UK, it’s also the second annual Roald Dahl Day with some events taking place across the country, celebrating the author’s life and his works like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
More noteworthy than the logo itself this time is the search result page it leads to. As usual, Google links the celebration to a search query – today, that’s roald dahl – which also has the potential to illustrate the usefulness (or lack of, depending) of a specific result, and what parts it’s made up of. In this case, the result page is a good illustration of Google’s universal search approach. “Universal Search” was officially announced in May this year but was an iterative continuation of Google’s past approaches of bringing all kinds of search results onto a single homepage. This way, you don’t need to remember different special search engines, but you can just enter all your search queries into one box (hence the approach was also called “onebox” by Google).
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