The google logo that celebrates the search engine's eleventh birthday.

Google has released a special misspelt version of its logo – apparently¹ to mark 11 years since the company was founded.

The search giant's name appeared with an extra letter "l" on its home page on Sunday, a change that did not escape the notice of the internet.

Within hours of the new logo going live, "why is google spelt wrong" and "why does google have two ls" were two of the most popular search phrases on the web.

Google was formed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin 11 years ago this month – in September 1998 – and the company has in the past altered its doodle to celebrate its own anniversaries.

For its tenth birthday last year the first letter "o" in Google was replaced with a cupcake.

Google has always used its logo as a way of commemorating² important historical dates and major world events, but has become increasingly playful in recent weeks.

Last week Google put paid to speculation³ about the meaning of three "unexplained phenomena⁴" doodles by admitting that they were designed to commemorate⁵ the 143rd birthday of the novelist HG Wells.

The first mysterious Google doodle appeared on September 5, and showed a flying saucer hovering⁶ over the Google logo and "abducting⁷" the letter "O".

On September 15, a second Google doodle appeared, showing a flying saucer hovering over a field. The Google logo was spelt out as series of crop circles, and clicking on the doodle produced a list of web pages related to crop circles.

The third doodle, on September 21, featured a scene from Wells's book War of the Worlds.

昨日，谷歌将其首页图标更换成了一个特意拼错的版本，以庆祝其11岁生日。

周日，搜索巨头Google在其首页的名字（Google）中多了一个字母“l”，这一变化没有逃过网民们的眼睛。

在新标识发布后几小时内，“Google为什么拼错了”和“Google为什么有两个“l”（Googlle）”成为网上最热门的两个搜索词条。

谷歌公司由拉里•佩琦和瑟金•布林于11年前的九月创立，也就是1998年9月。该公司过去也曾用改动图标的方式来庆祝其生日。

在去年谷歌10岁生日当天，Google图标中的第一个字母“o”被换成了一个杯形蛋糕。

谷歌经常用它的图标来纪念历史上的重要日子和世界各地的大事，而近几周来，Google图标的花样越来越多。

上周，谷歌结束了几周以来人们对其此前发布的三个“神秘图标”的种种猜测，坦称这三个图标是为了纪念小说家赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯143岁诞辰而设计的。

第一个神秘徽标出现于9月5日，呈现出一个飞碟盘旋在谷歌图标的上方，并“劫持”了字母“O”。

9月15日，神秘图标第二次出现，此次呈现的是一个飞碟盘旋在田野上空，Google图标的几个字母则连成了一系列的麦田怪圈。而点击图标就会出现和麦田圈有关的网页列表。

9月21日出现的第三个神秘图标是威尔斯所著的小说《世界大战》中的一个场景。

Vocabulary:

doodle:涂鸦

put paid to: to consider something closed or completed <英口> 了结，结束（They have put paid to their quarrel. 他们已结束争吵。）

H.G.Wells: 全名Herbert George Wells，赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯（1866－1946），英国著名小说家，尤以科幻小说创作闻名于世。1895年出版《时间机器》一举成名，随后又发表了《莫洛博士岛》、《隐身人》、《星际战争》等多部科幻小说。他还是一位社会改革家和预言家，撰写了《世界史纲》等大量关注现实、思考未来的作品。

crop circle: a pattern made up of ring shapes formed by the unexplained flattening of cereals growing in a field 麦田圈