Previous optical Illusion of the Month (February-March 2007)

A selection of answers from our visitors...

They forgot the 'l' in Google. They made the chocolate covered strawberry into a 'g', but missed out in the 'l'. - Ingrid Jakobsson

The l is missing from the google logo. The reason for this is that the strawberry stem fools the eye into thinking that the l is there. - Matt Thompson

1. Missing letter "L" in the word GOOGLE :)))
2. Can you explain why a lot of people don't notice it at all? Because when I go to Google I search for anything but their logo... - Tibor Csunyocska

The main Google title is missing the TM sign. - Anya Ludwig

The "l" in "Google" (as well as in "Ilusion" - ? -) is missing. - Prof. Dr. Jens C. Türp

The TM above the "e" in "Google" is missing. - Eddy Shapiro

The l in google is missing. People don’t notice because the stem of the strawberry looks like the l. - William Marscher

They left the "L" out of the word, Goggle. And probably nobody noticed it because of the stem sticking up from the strawberry! - Mendi Poulsom

L is missing in Google. Because we don't need all the letters in a word to read the word, most of the time just the first and last in order, the rest don't matter. - Grace2

Google forgot the L in their name! Why most people overlooked this is because their eyes were drawn to the second g/chocolate covered strawberry. When skimming the whole word, most people used heuristics and filled in the L with the strawberries stem even though there really was no L to speak of. Or so I hypothesize. - Veronica Serna

Missing is letter L and it is because we try to fill in the blanks by our perceptions. - Rajiv

Google is missing the L. People don’t notice it b/c the strawberry stem is long and curved. - Nikki Nupp