Twitter users solve Google’s crop circle mystery

Posted by majestic on September 15, 2009

Jack Riley, The Independent:

Eagle-eyed users of microblogging site Twitter claim to have unearthed the secret meaning of today’s “Google doodle”, a depiction of crop circles spelling out the Google name which has puzzled many users of the ubiquitous search engine.

In conjunction with today’s alien-themed logo, the official Google Twitter account tweeted a set of coordinates at around 4am, as well as a link to an image of the crop circle logo. As Twitter users noted in reference to the image, those coordinates indicate the position of the town of Woking and speculation began on the significance of the town.

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