Let The Games Begin! Websites Dress Up for the Olympics

It looks like the Olympic Games is a focus of everyone’s attention anyway so I decided to collect the special themed Olympic logos on some of the websites - well, those I have managed to find myself. They are not numerous so I suspect that not every web compny can afford such things for every special even. Google is definitely leading the game since the internet giant seems to produce a new logo for every important event - this is why I have started this post with their Olympic doodle.

Yahoo! follows with its animated logo that is hard to show as an image so you’ll have to visit the website to see those running athletes for yourself:

AOL has created a rather simple but quite cute logo simply by replacing the “O” with a gold medal:

Next we have a Russian free email provider and a large portal Mail.ru with a special logo for the event (the text under the torch reads “Beijing 2008″, obviously):

and one of the largest Russian social networks Odnoklassniki.ru as well:

And obviously this list would have been far from full without the largest Chinese social network Baidu:

And while all the companies I’ve found chose to offer special versions of their logos, Ask.com has decided to create a special skin for the homepage which is absolutely stunning (at least partly thanks to the beautiful stadium in Beijing):

These are all that I’ve found myself but if you discover some other creative approaches to reminding that it’s the Olympic Games time, leave a comment and I’ll be sure to update the post. In the meanwhile don’t forget to prepare your feed reader for your portion of Olympic news and results. Enjoy!

UPDATE: Thanks to the comment from AJ Batac I am adding the Olympic search skin that you can see for yourself on Live.com: