The Official Google Blog talks about the week-long celebration of that 40th Anniversary of Sesame Street with an announcement, and a video of Cookie Monster Singing about Google – and today Google went bright yellow on the logo and inserted two Big Bird (Sesame Street) legs as the “L” in Google.

Google doodles celebrate events and anniversaries around the world, while reflecting the personality, interests and quirkiness of Google employees. Today, you likely noticed a pair of familiar feet on the Google homepage. Leading up to Sesame Street’s 40th anniversary on November 10th, we’re excited to be featuring some of our favorite characters over the next seven days. Today: Big Bird!

Many Googlers grew up on Sesame Street, watching the colorful, seamless blend of education and entertainment. We’re delighted to have partnered with Sesame Street to create this special series of doodles, particularly since we share the same values of education, diversity and accessibility. And here’s a fun find from the crew at Sesame; they found a little known video clip of Cookie Monster singing about Google (rhyming it with bugle) way back in 1982 ??? 16 years before our company even existed.

Big Bird Google Logo