Hey Google Cobbers
December 23rd, 2006 at 10:38 am by David Farrar
It’s nice of you to try and personalise the Google pages for Xmas, but you know kangaroos for google.co.nz just isn’t fair dinkum!
Someone should send Google Head Office a copy of Google Earth so they can tell the difference between New Zealand and Australia.
UPDATE: Seems those kangaroos have taken over the planet, not just New Zealand. So we presume it is deliberate 
December 23rd, 2006 at 12:23 pm
Those aren’t roo’s they’re rats.
It’s an homage to our government.
The little one on the left is El Jefe.
Vote:December 23rd, 2006 at 12:53 pm
You might want to check out http://www.google.com, http://www.google.co.uk, http://www.google.de etc.
Have a bouncy Xmas!
Vote:December 23rd, 2006 at 1:03 pm
Kangaroos are a clever device internationally. Not only are they a cute Xmas device, they will also do for Boxing Day (geddit, “Boxing” Day). Boom – Boom.
Vote:December 23rd, 2006 at 1:03 pm
Kangaroos are a clever device internationally. Not only are they a cute Xmas device, they will also do for Boxing Day (geddit, “Boxing” Day). Boom – Boom.
Vote:December 23rd, 2006 at 3:47 pm
DPF: From what I can see the same symbol is used on all the google local sites. Somehow they got the idea that kangaroos have something to do with Christmas — refreshing since I ususally get rather unbelieveable stories about virgins giving birth and such. And Three Wise Men in the Middle East? Since when!
Vote:December 23rd, 2006 at 9:01 pm
It would be nice if next year they added a Kiwi pecking at one of the O’s dressed up as a Christmas pud.
Vote:December 23rd, 2006 at 9:35 pm
Plenty of NZ wallaroos /wallabies hopping around Otago.
Feel included.
NZ’s lack of a significant mammal let the Maoris (suspiciously unsubsidised) poor management of a surrogate mammal, the moa… blanch this little Maori dhimmi’s heart to a sliver of beige.
Vote:December 23rd, 2006 at 10:43 pm
Yes – it’s a global image because we’re getting it in Germany.
Today it’s changed – the ‘roos are now knitting the tinsel into squares.
If you click the image on the Google site, it will show you the 3 variations that they’ve had so far.
There will be a 4th!
Vote:December 23rd, 2006 at 10:53 pm
The NZ left can only be cauterised by political union with Aust…..
Google know something.
Vote:December 25th, 2006 at 9:44 am
It isn’t just NZ either! , they are appearing in the UK too!..
they 1st appeared as xmas day first hit the planet (australia i assume is the first major country/continent to get christmassy) , but why?
come on google, come clean on the Kangaroos!? (or Knitting rats, or crocheting walabies or whatever!)
T de B
Vote:December 26th, 2006 at 10:52 am
If you click on the Google logo it takes you to a page with the full range of ‘doodles’, with music to match !!
Vote:http://www.google.ca/doodle12.html
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