From around December 22-26, 2004, the undoubtedly most popular search engine today -- Google -- make known to public that they are celebrating the festive season Christmas with the rest of the world despite the fact that they are sitting on the search engines throne.

Usually at the main page where you'd arrive at any Google websites, you'd commonly see the colorful letters of Google (full primary and a quarter of secondary colors).

This time, illustration #1 shows that it's winter (December 22 is the shortest day, and the Winter solstice begins). Polar bears (with its kid [family!!]; symbolically they represents the staffs of Google Inc.) went out to play.

Illustration #2: Made snowballs, built a fortress, and moulded some colorful ice cream from the colorful letters of Google. Hmm, i didn't know those are sugar-coated edible letters akin to a candy house. It's like one saying, "You do everything in Google.com, man! That's the best there is!". and the other in respond, "Sweet! Totally cool!"

Illustrn #3: Polar bears serves all their delicious colorful servings. All are happy.

Google is sending a message here. Even on Halloween if you remember, they have a different logo in conjunction with the festive season. Google has been and will always be with us. Maybe it's expressing many thanks to us all for our undying support?

There's a Google Scholar in beta test version but it's fully functional. You should use it if you're a student looking for articles, journals, published sources for your research(-es).

Cheers to Google!