I had a great laugh when I visited Google Search this morning:

Barcode logo on Google Search

They once in a while replace their logo for the holiday seasons or simply to tribute a person. The replaced logos have often been called Doodles.

Here’s the story: Today is the 57th anniversary of the first patent on the bar code. Inventors Norman Woodland and Bernard Silver filed the patent on October 1949, and it was granted, No. 2,612,994, on October 7, 1952.